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Samsung makes next-gen WiFi five times faster

Normally when we see an announcement from Samsung it’s something about the latest generation smartphone or ultra high definition television. Today, the South Korean conglomerate has announced that it has managed to get its next generation WiFi network to transmit data at a staggering 4.6Gbps, around five times faster than what is possible on current gen networks.

According to Samsung, a 1GB file can be transferred in less than three seconds making it a suitable way of sending uncompressed high definition (and even ultra high definition) video files from smartphones to TVs and around the house.

Samsung even claims that an uncompressed HD movie can be streamed almost instantaneously from a smartphone to a TV over 802.11ad.

The next gen 802.11ad standard uses a new chunk of unlicensed radio spectrum in the 60GHz band and is capable of a theoretical maximum of up to 7Gbps according to the standard’s official documentation. That makes it around eight times as fast as a current generation 802.11ac network connection or nearly 50 times faster than the more popular 802.11n network standard.

One of the biggest problems with 802.11ad however is that the 60GHz radio waves don’t go through barriers like walls and people which means that it needs line-of-sight to be able to broadcast its signal to a tablet or a smartphone. It can combat this by bouncing the signal off of walls and down corridors and since it uses a technology called beam-forming which knows where in the room your tablet is, for example, and can redirect its antenna to transmit the data directly to the intended recipient. It’s here where Samsung says it has done the most work making 802.11ad commercially viable, according to them at least, and we sincerely hope it’s true so that we can start seeing faster network connection speeds for our high definition home media streaming.

[Source – Samsung, Via – Digital Trends]

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