Re:Aereo Founder Is Back with New High-Speed Wireless Service
by edbrown23 on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:04PM
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I worked at Aereo back when it closed down, I can assure you the individual antennas were real, and were really used to tune and stream your videos.
Re:Aereo Founder Is Back with New High-Speed Wireless Service
by acjohnson55 on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:50AM
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Any source for that?
It's not like it's crazy hard to make a small digital antenna, so I'm not sure why it would be in doubt that they did so.
Re:Aereo Founder Is Back with New High-Speed Wireless Service
by snowwrestler on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:14AM
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The question is whether building the Aereo antenna arrays developed some special understanding of antennae that would confer competitive advantage on a wireless ISP.
Wireless ISPs have been tried for 15 years, but the only place they've been successful is where there is no real alternative. Weather, humidity, and trees make it extremely difficult to compete with the bandwidth and reliability of wired Internet.
Personally, I'm dubious that the Aereo antenna technologies apply to this new venture. The Aereo arrays tuned in relatively low-frequency signals from optimum locations. A wireless consumer ISP using unlicensed spectrum will be the opposite: listening for high frequencies in bad locations.
I thought the extent of their antenna technology was just a board with a bunch of token antenna element that gave the illusion that each subscriber was using a dedicated antenna.