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Re:The bandwidth bottleneck that is throttling the Internet by elihu on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @06:56PM (#12265279)
That's basically how unlicensed wireless (e.g. 802.11 wireless ethernet) works, and it seems to be working okay. I think increased unlicensed spectrum would be great.

Another option would be to have something like a hybrid of the unlicensed and HAM bands with more liberal output power restrictions than unlicensed spectrum where you have to pass a test and get a proper (inexpensive) license to use the band, but you can do more-or-less whatever you want within the band as long as long as you identify your station, stay within output power limits, and don't intentionally interfere with anyone.

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Re:The bandwidth bottleneck that is throttling the Internet by JStanton617 on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @07:57PM (#12265516)
It does not work OK at all. Try being in any dense area such as an urban apartment building. There are 30 networks I can see on all 11 wifi channels. Its totally unusable.
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Re:The bandwidth bottleneck that is throttling the Internet by dTal on Thursday August 11, 2016 @08:23AM (#12267609)
Is that an issue with unlicensed spectrum, or an issue with trying to provide 30 separate encrypted comms channels over a narrow bandwidth in a dense space?

Surely, increasing unlicensed spectrum would alleviate this by providing for more channels...

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