Why isn't wi-fi reliable?
I'd like to understand why from an analog RF Design engineer's perspective as well as try to understand how Plume arbitrages a multi-billion dollar business with tons of electrical engineers who try to build high performance products.
What is it that the key players are all missing out on that your startup understands?
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@datarade From what I can tell, Plume is doing a couple of interesting things that most other folks aren't trying:
- many more small antennas, more widely spaced; I think a lot of routers start from the assumption that you need to optimize the case for a single base-station. Plume starts from the assumption that you have one antenna per room.
- compute in …See more
@datarade wireless in general, and WiFi in particular (an unlicensed spectrum) is an indeterministic medium - the environment constantly changes due to varying loads, congestion, interference, fading, etc. Current offerings are largely "fixed" solutions trying to solve a "varying" problem. The result today, as the sum of the two, is a varying, inconsistent q…See more
