If you use your device to connect to the Internet in a big noisy environment, you would experience a slow communication. This is because, WiFi signals interfere with each other because there isn’t enough bandwidth on the wireless spectrum to handle all the traffic from the devices that are trying to use the spectrum at the same time.
MIT scientists claim to have created a new wireless technology with which Wi-Fi data rates can triple, while also doubling the range of the signal. Dubbed MegaMIMO 2.0, the system will soon be commercialized and could relieve the pressure on our increasingly crowded wireless networks. Multiple-input multiple-output, or MIMO technology helps network devices perform better by using multiple transmitters and receivers operating simultaneously, which then transmit and receive multiple data signal simultaneously. MIT's MegaMIMO 2.0 works by allowing multiple routers to work in harmony, sending data on the same piece of spectrum.
MIT claimed that during the tests MegaMIMO 2.0 was able to increase data transfer speed of four laptops connected to the same Wi-Fi network by morethan 300 percent. The technology is expected to be also applied to mobile networks to solve similar congestion issues.
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