Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks

Re:Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband n... by vel0city on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:14AM (#42077340)

> WWAN did leap-frog WLAN with 5G and especially with ultra-wideband

> Until I installed 6GHz Wi-Fi

So after you upgraded your WLAN it was faster than your WAN until you bothered upgrading your WLAN.

That's a personal deployment decision not necessarily a matter of what was or wasn't' available at the time. >1G WiFi existed years before ultra-wideband was a thing.

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Re:Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband n... by conradev on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:17AM (#42077979)

The first phone to ship with ultra-wideband was the iPhone 11 in 2019, and the first phone to ship with 6GHz was the Galaxy S21 Ultra in 2021. The Intel AX210 was the first wireless card to ship with 6GHz at the end of 2020 and the first laptop to include it from MSI shipped in 2021.

Calling WiFi 6 >1G is a pretty far stretch. I don't think I've seen a real world test that breaks that barrier in favorable conditions, even with today's routers:

https://evanmccann.net/blog/2022/5/u6-pro-and-u6-mesh-review

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-wi-fi-router...

Whereas ultra-wideband was capable of pulling 2Gbps in 2020, something I have not even seen Wi-Fi 7 able to do. Ultra-wideband still has quite an edge:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ATT/comments/gbr335/this_might_be_a...

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Re:Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband n... by vel0city on Thursday November 07, 2024 @12:31PM (#42078833)

> I've also tested 160 MHz channels, which quickly run into the ~930 Mbps TCP throughput limit of a gigabit Ethernet connection, but perform worse at range. I'll cover 160 MHz channels and 2.5 Gbps Ethernet in more depth when the U6-Enterprise leaves early access

So yeah, when the author limits the tests to <1Gb none of the results were >1Gb. Who would have expected those results.

I've had >1G WiFi 5 networks in operation since 2018. It didn't require 6Ghz.

Your equipment or your environment may not have enabled it, but it was around.

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