Re: Light better than WiFi for network connections?


"Al in Dallas" <alfargnoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not sure this is the right group, but I recently read in
Scientific American that visible or infrared light would be a better
method to use to "talk" from a wired point on a wall to a room full of
computers than current WiFi or any other radio-wave solution. The
article kept stating that visible or infrared light was better because
they're made up of photons which don't interfere the way that radio
waves do. Since radio waves are also photons, this seemed like an
unreasonable explanation. Does anyone have any idea what the author
was trying to say?


No, why don't you copy the article? Ir links went over like a lead balloon
in the mid 1990's. Perhaps you are thinking about fiber to the desktop?



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