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[-] Zellith@lemmy.fmhy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

"Advantages of using light rather than radio frequencies"

Nobody tell em how the electromagnetic spectrum works!

Yup, as someone who worked with radar, I'm not really sure what they're trying to say.

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

the key technical difference being that Wi-Fi uses radio frequency to induce an electric tension in an antenna to transmit data, whereas Li-Fi uses the modulation of light intensity to transmit data.

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