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Light-based “LiFi” is stunningly fast, notably fragile—and now standardized (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

Light is almost certainly the fastest thing around. So it makes sense that "light-based wireless communications," or LiFi, could blow the theoretical doors off existing radio-wave wireless standards, to the tune of a maximum 224GB per second. [Edit, 2:40 p.m.: It does not make sense, and those doors would remain on each rhetorical vehicle. As pointed out by commenters, radio waves, in a vacuum, would reasonably be expected to travel at the same speed as light. Ars, but moreso the author personally, regrets the error. Original post continues.]

JFC is this really where you want to get your technology data from? Authors that clearly have no grasp of even the basest fundamentals in the physics involved? Really?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, first thing I noticed as well. Hilarious how the guy has no idea what he is talking about

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