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February 24th 04, 01:11 AM

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(Brian Kelly) writes:

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In article ,

(Brian Kelly) writes:

I'm not up to speed on the methods which will be used to transport the
802.11 type signals into buildings

It's called "radio". aka "wireless". The modems/routers/hubs have these
funny
things called "antennas" on them and so do the boxes out on the utility
pole.
but I assume it'll be carried over
existing cable TV wiring to a Part 15 tranciever/modem somewhere in
the building. Or something along those lines.

No wires at all. You been to Microcenter lately?

Spare me the lectures willya??!

When you spare me, sure!

I'm about ten feet from one, they're
everywhere and I don't need a tour of Microcenter to "find out what
they are". And yes it does need a wire, in this case a cable TV
connection to the modems/routers/hub. Is this the "Wi-Fi 802 dot
something" which is being hyped? I don't think so.

There are other systems in use and on the way that require no wiring in your
house.

Makes a helluva lot
more sense economically and in all other respects vs. BPL. In
particular they won't trash the HF spectrum like BPL does.

It's also faster, more robust, and even more portable. Put a PCIMCIA
cardmodem in your lapper and surf anywhere.

Wrong. Surf around as long as you're in Starbucks, in an airport
terminal, in a Hilton and maybe you'll find a connection. Now drive a
few miles to the Wharton Tract or even to Ridley Creek State Park and
try to get a connect yer lapper-with-an-antenna.

Make that "anywhere in your house or yard".

Point is that the last-mile problem isn't a real problem at all. Run the fiber
down the street on the poles, put a little box every so many poles, use a
little encoding, no problem.

I undertand
that they would use a band of frequencies which would "endanger" our
2.4 Mhz allocations. But like I posted somewhere else earlier, I'll
trade 2.4 Mhz for 14 Mhz any day.

Some of them do and that's not good. Others are in the 5 GHz region. What
is
most important is that we can have a protected slice of GHz *and* those
technologies can exist.

And if "they" can't find a "solution" then kiss the 2.4 Ghz (got it
right that time) ham band 'bye-'bye. Get comfortable with the concept

More bandwidth than all of HF.

btw, I came across some info on the Manassas thing. $20 month for BPL - for the
first three months! Then it jumps to $50/month. On a good day it might get up
to half of DSL speed. Maybe.

And Ralph Nader is going to run again. GEts worse every day.

Comic relief. Beats Ross Perot.

Ralph Nader is Shrub's best friend. Without him, Algore would be in the
White House.

At this point I'm not in the least bit convinced that Gore would have
been one bit worse that the Shrub.

Izzat the sun coming up over Sugartown Road?

Democrats are the free-spenders and
the Rebublicans are the fiscally conservative right?

That's what the thousand-points-of-light-family-values-read-my-lips-cloth-coat
Republicans keep telling us....

Have you checked the size of the national debt recently?

Yep. But that's not the big problem - the real 800 pound gorilla is how fast
the deficit is making it grow. A few years back we had a surplus....

And now we're supposed to go back to the Moon, and send people to Mars. Yet the
odds on a Shuttle failure are worse than 100 to 1...

Tell ya what, let's fund Shrub's moon-mars-madness the same way things like
education, mass transit and health care get funded. We could have walkathons
and bake sales. Corporate sponsorship in return for advertising space, just
like they do in NASCAR and at Indy. Let groups and individuals send in money to
buy parts and supplies - a gallon of rocket fuel, coupla resistors for the
computer, etc.

NASA can have anything in the Southgate Radio stockroom for a very nominal
price.

73 de Jim, N2EY