Guess we'll be looking for new WiFi cards soon ...

New White Space Wi-Fi Ruling Could Be a Game Changer

Some are calling it “super Wi-Fi,” or “Wi-Fi on steroids,” but whatever you call it, the recent ruling from the FCC that allows for unlicensed use of the “white space” between TV channels for wireless data service could signal changes for consumers and everyone else providing or using Wi-Fi networks. On September 23’d the FCC, for the first time in over 20 years, gave the go ahead for the public to use a very desirable part of the radio frequency spectrum that should be able to send Wi-Fi signals farther, better, and faster than current implementations.
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Balance of article available through the link above.

 

There are some big gaps up there on frequencies that propagate a lot further then 2.4 and 5GHz.

 

We'll see if they allow permits for WiFi manufacturing in those bands; it would be nice to be able to get some more reach when we're out in the sticks, but we ALREADY have issues in urban areas with cross-channel interference due to the heavy density of AP usage/abuse. Just imagine how bad it would get if instead of fighting for free radio bandwidth with everybody in a 1 block radius, now you have to fight with everybody in a 6-block radius...

Yuck.

Maybe if they limit it to narrowcast for Wireless Bridges or somesuch... but a whole new generation of every idiot with a X-Wii-Station trying to carry on a FPS AND voice at the same time? My gawd... we'll turn every inner-city neighborhood into an RF DMZ. My fillings hurt just at the thought of it...

mnem
"What's thi..." "DON'T TOUCH THA..." "ZZZZZAAAAAAAP!!!"

RF burns are the worst.

 

I will try this again , issues popped up the last time I posted
And I do mean popped up

I think it was the new forum style .....Major Changes it seems

My I suggest

 

Actually, that's a direct play-by-play accounting of a real event that happened with me and my best friend when I was young. I had the cover off my Old Yaesu FT-101FX adjusting the bias between stages to try and get a little more fire out of the aging 6JSC6es before they died; he touched the plate cap while I had it keyed with a test signal injected into the front end. It's a good thing I still had it dumped into my old Cantenna for the initial trim; I could have started a fire.

Of course, Brian didn't let me forget about how I nearly electrocuted him for weeks; that burn traveled right up his index finger into the soft webby stuff between it & the next finger. Oww!^3.

mnem
Poke! Does that hurt?

 

I want the link to the FIRST "suggestion"!

 

BoingyBoingyBoingyBoingy!!!

mnem
Can we call you DaddOOOH?

 

Ahhhhhhh, the wonders of galvanism, with two dissimilar metal in an acidic oral environment, you'll be recieving all sorts of radio signals through the oral cavity and noises are magnified at least five times in the mouth. ask me how I know! Sitting in a dental chair listening to elevator music with patient getting rap music at the same time is confusing.......................Driller