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Microsoft Partners With D-Link To Deliver Speedier Wi-Fi in Rural Regions (zdnet.com)
Microsoft has partnered with networking equipment manufacturer D-Link to deliver speedier Wi-Fi to rural communities around the world. From a report on ZDNet:Dubbed "Super Wi-Fi", the wireless infrastructure is set to be based on the 802.11af protocol, and will take advantage of unused bandwidth in the lower-frequency white spaces between television channel frequencies where signals travel further than at higher frequencies. A pilot of the first phase is commencing in an unnamed American state, with trials also slated to run in three other countries. "D-Link sees ourselves at the very heart of this kind of technical innovation and development. We also acknowledge that we have a role to play in helping all countries and future generations better connect," said Sydney-based D-Link managing director for ANZ Graeme Reardon. "Our goal is to use all of our 30 years' experience and expertise and our global footprint to help deliver Super Wi-Fi as a technological platform for growth to the world's underdeveloped regions."
I've been lazily not reading about those new protocols, does af means 'as fuck' in that context?
to make WiFi for people who don't eat pringles
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
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California was nominated to be part of it, until it announced plans to secede from the Union.
And no, the company was known as D-link, way before the D stood for Democrat, in mainstream media.
I pay $100/mo for 6/1 from a local WISP and they suck eggs. Service is poor. No web bill payment, have to call them to process a CC. But they don't cash checks in a timely fashion so you can't use those either. (My CU has about a week's delay before they send a bill payment, and their website is garbage... that's not their fault, but most other ISPs mitigate these problems.) If the same hosers had better technology at least they would fail less and I might get faster speeds for the same money.
I think they are using WiFi but I don't know any particulars.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Seems to be largely ignored. Is this process going to help people in First World Countries that have been ignored or left behind? Or is this going to be a trial in such a place in the USA then if successful, move out to other countries and once again ignore rural Americans?
I say this because I recently went to Oklahoma and discovered many places where there were no phone lines, and no cell signal, but there were houses and people there.
With the availability of this new low-cost wireless solution for connectivity, I'm looking forward to the elimination of the Universal Service Fee from my phone bill.
Article contains few technical details. This one is just slightly better: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Quotes:
"The 2013 amendment to Wi-Fi is an air interface for “white space” frequencies (from 54 MHz to 698 MHz in the USA; Europe and the UK use a more realistic 490 to 790 MHz), with a maximum per-channel 35.6 Mbps (16 channels can be bonded together to get nearly 600 Mbps)."
And:
"The standard is designed for links up to 1 km in range, the kind of reach that 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi can only manage with a cantenna."
For the metric challenged, 1km = 0.6 miles.
This would go a lot farther if they tried to develop low latency ad hoc (neural?) networking ultimately linking to the nearest municipal backbone. Then they could simultaneously deal with the ongoing ISP problem that plagues virtually all users of the internet.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Two companies that exemplifies "fuck you all, I got your money" that doesn't give a flying fuck about anyone else but themselves. M$ everyone already knows about Win10 (among numerous other infractions that they sleaze their way out of through an army of lawyers and deep pocket.) DLink that lifts GPL code into closed source products (got caught and sued several times) and hardcodes IP addresses into product FW resulting in DDoS time servers. What can possibly go wrong?
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
802.16, IIRC, was supposed to solve these problems. About 10 years ago one of the cell phone companies was offering it.
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the trusty windows 10 behind trustier dlink routers. what can go wrong ?
But it's not. This requires - at present - a databasing system that can methodically lower interference between nodes and divvy up the bandwidth between different houses. Because the frequency penetrates so well and has so much distance capability, interference is a constant and potentially crippling problem. That also causes major issues with country borders, since it is easily possible to interfere with transmissions of another base station from 100+ miles distance.
The article makes it all sound like you just buy some device, plug it in and whallah, you're online at up to 600Mbps. Not to mention that 600Mbps refers to "air speed," which means all the signalling, all the channel boundaries being removed, all the error correction data, all the retransmissions, etc. In other words, nothing like 600Mbps to the end user. But hey, don't let that get in the way of $ale$ amirite?!
...Steve
High flying in the clouds and fucking your assholes out? You damn sure weren't talking or helping anyone.
I love Microsoft, their senior executives, their products, their stock price and everything. And now, with their exemplary friends and open source 'enthusiasts' D-Link they are going to help these poor folk get the straw out of their hair and embrace modernity without exterior motive.
If there is anyone on the planet that is so good, I would be very, very surprised. I love them.
On y va, qui mal y pense!
I ranted a couple of years back that individual businesses should set up open WIFI bases to get public appreciation and build a customer base. As far as i know my thoughts were completely ignored. I will admit that Microsoft knows how to make money and they have now taken the idea quite a bit further. For example my home is only 1,000 feet from US Hwy 1, Sure at least 100K cars pass near by during the day as well as all the people living near by. An out like Home Depot which is on US 1 here would have huge advantage and could have a Home Depot ad displayed whenever someone uses their WIFI channels.
Does 802.11y-2008 hardware actually exist as a real retail product someone in the US can buy? With 802.11y, someone who's a mile or two away from the nearest fiber (or other high speed internet) could offer to pay for a friend's broadband in exchange for letting him plug in his own 802.11y access point. It would only be 54mbps (max), but it still beats IDSL and satellite (a/k/a "Broadband for the Damned and Desperate").
(802.11y-2008 is basically 802.11a, using 3.7GHz instead of 5GHz, with additional safeguards to enforce spectrum licensing & prevent interference. AFAIK, the FCC theoretically charges $100/year for the license to use it.)
"Dyn's platform .. deliver faster access, reduced page load times"
Wouldn't it be faster and more reliable for Netflix, Twitter, Pfizer and CNBC to run their own local DNS caching servers.That way when the upstream server becomes unavailable, they'll still have something to fall back on.
"Dyn's platform .. deliver faster access, reduced page load times"
Wouldn't it be faster and more reliable for Netflix, Twitter, Pfizer and CNBC to run their own local DNS caching servers.That way when the upstream server becomes unavailable, they'll still have something to fall back on.
oh my, look! it's a social justice warrior! if you're not helping someone else 24/7, you're a vile human being! ZOMG!
So, the least reliable OS vendor partners with the least reliable router vendor to create reliable rural networks. What could possibly go wrong?
Why would faster wifi be beneficial to rural communities? This seems flat-out idiotic. If your internet connection doesn't have the bandwidth to utilise it, how is a faster wifi connection even going to be noticeable? All those farmers playing LAN games at their homes? I don't think so...