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Article #372Re: How many Google wireless access points for San Francisco?
From: Steve Pope
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:04
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:04
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George <george@nospam.invalid> wrote: >Philip J. Koenig wrote: >> spope33@speedymail.org (Steve Pope) writes... >>>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. Adoption of 5 GHz is a lot slower than many in the industry predicted, but it will soon be pretty standard. For those with older 2.4 GHz-only devices, they will just have less coverage -- much as having a single-band cellphone (if there is such a thing now) has less coverage. Steve
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X-Google-Thread: 104fd2,7866016d66b9e3e9 X-Google-Thread: fa874,7866016d66b9e3e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid104fd2,gidfa874,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.kjsl.com!wasp.rahul.net!192.160.13.20.MISMATCH!rahul.net!not-for-mail From: spope33@speedymail.org (Steve Pope) Newsgroups: alt.internet.wireless,ba.internet Subject: Re: How many Google wireless access points for San Francisco? Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:04:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: "a2i network" Lines: 30 Message-ID: <djlhhn$erq$1@blue.rahul.net> References: <0sdrl1tcp4bpoi1qonabuuk4bkujoapgpu@4ax.com> <djkvbd$s4a$1@blue.rahul.net> <MPG.1dc7aab8eec3a48298a8f8@corp.supernews.com> <a4OdnTAUJ-LBhMPeRVn-qQ@adelphia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: green.rahul.net X-Trace: blue.rahul.net 1130252663 15226 192.160.13.49 (25 Oct 2005 15:04:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: support@rahul.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:04:23 +0000 (UTC) Originator: spp@green.rahul.net (Stephen P. Pope) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001)