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Originally Posted by Saulbadguy
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Yes I jumped the gun on the title.
what I found searching Wikipedia and yeah I know its not always accurate.
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The 60 GHz signal cannot typically penetrate walls but can propagate off reflections from walls, ceilings, floors and objects using beamforming built into the WiGig system. When roaming away from the main room the protocol can switch to make use of the other lower bands at a much lower rate, but which propagate through walls."
this article indicates that the 60GHz signal can not penetrate walls/floors. That's what I'd assumed. That'd mean that the multi-gig wifi signal would be limited to the same room or at best where a reflected signal can be received. That'd mean that simply closing a door would would trigger the signal to revert to back the slower 2.4 or 5GHz bands. I wonder if the plan would allow/require mutiple wired repeaters throughout a building. That said, same room wireless communication at theses speeds would allow for wireless transmission of HD video and audio, simplifying the placement of AV equipment.
So in short multi rooms would require wired repeaters most likely unless Samsung has figured this out also.