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Article #371Re: How many Google wireless access points for San Francisco?
From: George
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:40
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:40
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Philip J. Koenig wrote: > 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. Possibly, but a lot of technology is driven that way. 5 GHz hardware is not common and expensive because everyone piled into the 2.4 GHz band. If they chose for SFO the 5 GHz band they would free themselves from the current issues and the 5 GHz equipment would become just as common and inexpensive. > > > > >>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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