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Light-based “LiFi” is stunningly fast, notably fragile—and now standardized (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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224GB/s, killer security, no radio interference—but you can't block the beam.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The speed claim isn't true, it's ~150mbs being offered, and it doesn't work if the air is bit dusty or foggy.

So TL;DR: It's slower, more unstable and more expensive than already available directional "wifi" antennas that can do 10gbit over quite some distance.