I Am 100% Behind These MIT Scientists That Want To Make WiFi At Sporting Events 10x Faster
CNN Money — Getting good WiFi at a sporting event isn’t easy.
But researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory think they’ve solved this problem. In crowded areas — be it a concert, airport, conference hall or sports stadium — a bunch of wireless routers need to be installed to deliver Internet access to everyone. Having so many routers can create interference, leaving a frustrated crowd with painfully slow Internet access.
In a new paper published online, the MIT team described a method for managing networks that causes the routers to collaborate better. The researchers developed algorithms that process a router’s signal so that multiple routers can send information on the same wireless spectrum without causing interference. In their tests, the MIT researchers found data transfer speeds that were 3.3 times as fast as usual.
Ezzeldin Hussein Hamed, one of the MIT researchers, said that the data could be transferred 10 times as fast if his team had tested with additional routers.
Easily one of modern society’s biggest flaws: WiFi at sporting events and other stadium venues. It’s awful. AWFUL. Nothing worse than sitting there trying to snap it up after you’ve had a few beers only to see the little standby circle churning or the text sent bar 3/4 full for 5 minutes. Drains like half your battery in 10 minutes. How are you supposed to enjoy an event if you can’t even spend half of it on your phone? It’s outrageous, egregious, preposterous!
And let’s not just stop at stadium venues here. Let’s install this wild router algorithm system thing at tailgates, my apartment, bathroom stalls, wherever the porn sites’ servers are stored, etc. etc. Why limit 10x WiFi to stadiums when we can have it everywhere? MIT may have failed in hiring that sleazeball professor Mickey Rosa, but if they come through here they sure can right a lot of wrongs.
PS — The cover photo for this is just a bunch of English people at some festival but for whatever reason I thought it was laugh out loud funny. This guy has to be famous.. his look is ELECTRIC.
