Students Use 802.11g To Save Cable Industry

Posted by michael on Sunday May 18, 2003 @02:22PM from the in-your-dreams dept.

LiquidFun writes "Business undergraduates at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business have written an e-business case for one of their case competitions that describes how to use 802.11g wireless technology to distribute cable content, both interactive and broadcast, throughout the home. They mention features like video-on-demand, cable gaming, etc. and even provide enough of the technical specifications necessary to start believing that this could work. They even make available their PowerPoint presentation that they presented to judges from both Cisco & Deloitte Consulting. I'd say a pretty good job for third-year undergrads."

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Missed bandwidth by a few orders of magnitude by isdnip · 2003-05-18 14:50 · Score: 0, Troll

The proposal has everything on the cable sent over 802.11g all the time, so even TVs that aren't on will receive the signal. Well, lessee, a cable can support about a hundred (depending on the plant) downstream channels, which digitized are around 30 mbps apiece, so that's 3 Gbps... sure, that'll fit into 802.11g, not.

And the 2.4 GHz band is already congested. It's home of the microwave oven, for one thing, so reception would be mighty bad while the corn is popping. The last thing it needs is a wideband access point in every home.