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New arena Wi-Fi expected to be ‘17,000 times faster’ than home Internet

That's a lot of Snapchatting and Instagramming.
By | 0 Comments | Mar 5, 2019

The Sacramento Kings released a report Wednesday detailing some of the technology advancements of the Golden 1 Center.

Key to the report was highlighting how fast the Wi-Fi in the new arena is expected to be, primarily through a variety of "Wi-Fi access points," a 6,000-square-foot command and data center and hundreds of miles of fiber and copper cabling. For an example of the type of Internet speeds at the arena, the report claims the Internet at the Golden 1 Center will be more than 17,000 times faster than the average home Internet connection, with the "ability to handle more than 225,000 Instagram photos per second."

The Kings will play in the new arena next season and owner Vivek Ranadive proclaimed in a piece on Medium that he wants to build a modern-day Roman colosseum equipped for "Civilization 3.0 ".

Below are some of the technology details about the arena found in the report.

Many fans have complained that the Internet at Sleep Train Arena has been less than ideal, often leaving smartphones near useless when it comes to posting on social media and following real-time data. The Kings have been testing new Wi-Fi technology at Sleep Train Arena, but it hasn't been noticeable, at least to me while I have been at games. That being said, it is my understanding that Sleep Train Arena wasn't built to withstand the type of demand that current technology puts on a building.

We're about 10 months away from seeing what this new arena can do.

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