FCC planning to open up 1200 MHz of spectrum for unlicensed / Wi-Fi usage [pdf]

Re:FCC planning to open up 1200 MHz of spectrum for unlicens... by jeppesen-io on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @11:21PM (#22755947)

This is fantastic. For urban living, in appartments, 5Ghz is great in part because of the shorter range.

Roughly speaking, how many WIFI chanels does 1200 Mhz give? How does this compare to 5Ghz?

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Re:FCC planning to open up 1200 MHz of spectrum for unlicens... by zaroth on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:01AM (#22756087)

Historically the channels were 20MHz. More recently 40MHz and I don’t know if ac goes wider?

1200MHz of bandwidth is a lot.

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Re:FCC planning to open up 1200 MHz of spectrum for unlicens... by dboreham on Thursday April 02, 2020 @01:10AM (#22756391)

80MHz is common, 160MHz exists.

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Re:FCC planning to open up 1200 MHz of spectrum for unlicens... by tradertef on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:11PM (#22760548)

Roughly 2-3x more channels compared to 5 GHz.

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