The Bay Area Wireless User Group meeting was held at Vivato headquarters this December. Jim Thompson formerly of Musenki Boxes and Waveport walked through a PowerPoint on Vivato (but doesn’t reveal much). He was joined by the engineering group videoconferencing in from Spokane. Here’s the BAWUG’s Video. Vivato’s innovative “Wi-Fi Switch” is white hot. The [...]
Providing commercial-quality, wireless broadband to homes and businesses is becoming a viable alternative to DSL or cable modems. Wi-Fi can deliver the internet faster than DSL and cheaper than “3G” cellular. AT&T Wireless (with Cometa) and Starbucks (with T-Mobile) may deliver wireless “hot spots” but they still use phone lines for the “last mile”. Mick [...]
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Wireless bridges and repeaters can eliminate wires and phone lines. Blanket outdoor coverage might be provided inexpensively and without wires. It’s sorta like Christmas. The Wireless Distribution System (WDS) pdf is described by Intersil. It’s largely reiterated below (in html). Network authority Tim Higgins has the definitive explanation of wireless bridging and wireless repeating using [...]
According to Broadband Week, capital funds are depressed for WISPs. Meanwhile vendors are producing cheaper and more effective wireless products. Ventures like CoMeta may provide new options for end users while government funding opportunities may exist for fixed wireless in rural areas. Unlike ISPs in large metropolitan areas, rural ISPs have to pay an additional [...]
Netgear is shipping their dual-band WAB102 Access Point using the Atheros AR 5100 802.11a chipset that outputs +17db mW at 5.8Ghz. The dual-band AP is available for about $225. NETGEAR also has a partnership with Wi-Fi Hot Spot network provider Boingo Wireless. Unfortunately, the WAB102 can’t act as a wireless bridge that forwards the signals [...]
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