For Denver Broncos fans who cheer the orange and blue from inside Mile High Stadium this season, watching online videos and posting their own updates should be much smoother, thanks to a $6 million upgrade of the stadium’s Wi-Fi network.
The ongoing renovation, paid for by Verizon and the Broncos, includes four times as many wireless antennas. And new hardware uses the latest available generation of Wi-Fi, called 802.11ac, which has theoretical speeds of 1.3 gigabits per second.
To achieve those speeds, the stadium also tapped CenturyLink to provide a 10-gigabit-per-second internet connection to power the stadium’s wireless network.