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'Whispering' Wireless Internet

Posted by timothy on from the piggyback-ride dept.

Zondar writes "MSNBC is reporting about a new radio filtering technology allows an ISP to use already-occupied frequencies to transmit and receive data. From the article: 'xMax, the latest innovation in broadband communications, is a very quiet radio system that uses radio channels already filled up with noisy pager or TV signals ...' and 'xMax is trespassing radio frequencies, although trespassing is not the right word, because we're allowed to transmit a signal if it doesn't interfere with other, stronger signals...' Too good to be true? Sounds like it would just raise the noise floor, to me."

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  1. Hooray! by djblair · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's all the hassles of DSL but now with NO WIRES!

    1. Re:Hooray! by Feyr · · Score: 3, Funny

      this einstein quote seems appriopriate

      "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

  2. Re:MOD PARENT UP!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    mod both parents up

  3. Re:Spread-spectrum by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Thats pretty cool stuff, thanks for pointing out her contribution!"

    That's an interesting way to describe her pic... Who says geeks aren't gentlemen?

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  4. Re:I'm surprised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm going to patent an idea I have for a method of increasing slashdot karma by claiming to be the inventor of some obscure idea which can be neither verified nor disproved. This technique can be used to sell otherwise worthless UID numbers for nontrivial sums of cash via the internet auction site formerly known as eBay.