🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:53:49 +0000 (UTC), 
in article <djkvbd$s4a$1@blue.rahul.net>, 
spope33@speedymail.org (Steve Pope) writes...
> Philip J. Koenig  <See_email_@ddress_below.This_one_is.invalid> wrote:
> 
> >His skepticism about the whole idea is not a lot different
> >than my own.  Like Seybold, I think interference in the 2.4Ghz 
> >band is going to be a monstrous issue, among other things.  
> 
> There are 25 unlicensed channels in the 5 GHz band.  I assume they
> will deploy there -- otherwise, it is completely hopeless.


What's the point of putting radios in 5Ghz spectrum when almost
no users are going to be able to receive those signals directly?

Telling everyone to go buy 802.11a hardware is going to be
a non-starter.


 
> What I don't know is whether Google has an actual engineering 
> team on this or whether it's still just in marketing.


As I posted a few days ago, for the SF bid Google is partnering 
with a San Diego-based wireless engineering company which, among 
other things, will be involved in building a muni wifi system in 
Madison Wisconsin.

This is the partner:
http://www.wfinet.com/index.html



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