Re:Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes
by snowwrestler on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @06:10PM
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The trees say no.
Folks have tried high-speed fixed wireless for almost 2 decades now, and the only places it has been a viable business are rural areas where hard lines are not an option. Once the housing density gets above a certain level, wires beat wireless for any fixed installation--higher speeds, better reliability.
At very high frequencies, basic physics is working against you. Nothing has changed that.
> I have a receiver on the top of my house that is a point to point signal, pumping 1 gig +, and soon to be much higher, speeds.
To get a point-to-point signal, I would need a ~20m mast on top of my house to clear neighborhood trees, and so would the central antenna, and so would all my neighbors.
Folks have tried high-speed fixed wireless for almost 2 decades now, and the only places it has been a viable business are rural areas where hard lines are not an option. Once the housing density gets above a certain level, wires beat wireless for any fixed installation--higher speeds, better reliability.
At very high frequencies, basic physics is working against you. Nothing has changed that.
> I have a receiver on the top of my house that is a point to point signal, pumping 1 gig +, and soon to be much higher, speeds.
To get a point-to-point signal, I would need a ~20m mast on top of my house to clear neighborhood trees, and so would the central antenna, and so would all my neighbors.