Super Wi-Fi Vs. Wi-Fi - What's the difference?
It looks like most of the US University Campuses will have Super Wi-Fi, a long range wireless network that extends to over 5 kilometres, as compared to the traditional Wi-Fi, which is unable only within a range of about 350 ft. I quickly searched for the difference between Super Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi and landed on Wikipedia page that isn't very useful. What it says is that the unlike the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequencies used by Wi-Fi signals; the Super Wi-Fi uses the white spaces between the television channel frequencies.
I've several questions which I couldn't find answers to on the Internet.
- Is the data carrying capacity of the Super Wi-Fi lesser than that of regular Wi-Fi?
- What allows for the longer range and better penetration power of super Wi-Fi?
- IEEE 802.22 has been proposed; but not not final yet. If that's the case, how are US Universities implementing them?
- Can the existing Wi-Fi routers be modded to support Super Wi-Fi?
- What else should we know about Super Wi-Fi?