Your Home Wi-Fi Is About to Get Faster

Are all your family or roommates' laptops, phones, tablets, gaming consoles and other wireless devices clogging up the invisible pipes that make up your home Wi-Fi network? Good news: That network will soon be faster and support more bandwidth-intensive activity, including streaming high-definition video.

Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski announced during CES Wednesday that the FCC is planning its biggest expansion of wireless spectrum for Wi-Fi in a decade. Specifically, the FCC is opening up to 195 megahertz of unlicensed spectrum in the 5 gigahertz band for high-speed, high-capacity Wi-Fi known as "Gigabit Wi-Fi."

The move, which will begin next month, will free up…
Continue reading...

More About: fcc, spectrum, US