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Profs Bring TV Spectrum Free Wi-Fi To Houston Area
eldavojohn writes "Funded by the NSF, Rice University professors and students are bringing a prototype Wi-Fi system for free to Pecan Park in Houston. Part of the Technology For All initiative (TFA), this effort requires a heavily customized system that utilizes TV-band white spaces in the neighborhood. The team has a 60-foot-tall antenna and will be building several custom devices to give to a few dozen customers that tap into the five empty TV channels available (~30MHz of spectrum). The customization means that standards have yet to be hammered out (the 'WhiteFi' standard is mentioned) but the grant application calls on these professors and students to 'serve as researchers, the wireless network service provider, the network equipment and protocol designers, and community-technology educators and advocates.' Exciting possibilities for a future with less expensive internet connections."
a NEW player could set up a wireless infrastructure in any city for a few dollars per citizen covered.
it's not all about understanding the largely trivial technological aspects of installing the infrastructure. there are also social and political aspects that you have obviously not considered because you're obviously completely ignorant.
what is your full name and address? how many large scale wireless installations have you done in the past?
Having for years been a virtual black-man with a huge dick at the recent TED conference, fucking virtual previously tight-cunt bitches, I must say I don't find this racist. However, WhiteFi??? Really. It just sounds like something baked up at stormfront.org.
In any case, why shouldn't white nationalists have the freedom to develop their own communications standards? There was an article on here recently about Indians creating their own OS, and people didn't seem to start some anti-nationalist crap about that.
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