Momentum is building in the WiFi HaLow world, with Morse Micro announcing a 16 km range record, and Edgecore Wi-Fi unveiling a new gateway with native Matter functionality. The low-power, sub-GHz, IoT-focused WiFi implementation has great potential, but is this the start of the hockey-stick growth curve? For Morse Micro, an Australian maker of WiFi chips, the 16 km test took place in Joshua Tree National Park, in California – a place rather devoid of wireless interference. At the theoretical maximum range of 15.9 km, with a receive signal strength of -94 dBM, the calculations suggested a throughput of some 4 Mbps. The line-of-sight connection provided a peak of 3.6 Mbps, with the average being 1.31 Mbps – although the…