After the last story on here about this, I looked into it a little bit. I was able to find that bpl has been tried in Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Austria, Finland, England(originally by Nortel), singapore, and holland. There may be others but I'm not sure. In these cases, it was called off because of a)interference, and b)the high costs. This isn't a technology that can be used in rural areas, its too expensive. This will just provide another option for people with existing options(not a bad idea, but not what they're saying.) I was able to find a website that tracked complaints, but can't find it now, there were over 60 complaints filed with the fcc, only 2 of which were resolved(probably more now as a few were in cedar rapids.) The recent case with jim was used because he kept such good records, even having the power company turn the system off to compare. Just a couple things, I would love to see more options for internet, but with companies like boeing against this, and also the possibililty to knock out dsl service, I just don't like it.
As some people said, this is old news. There is currently a ham in Iowa who is filing a complaint with the FCC for repeated intentional interference - the usual communications act of 1934 and part 15 rules violations. This is the first official complaint that is going to the fcc so is the thing to watch. more info is at http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/06/15/2/ for anyone who wants to check it out.
Your right about power, if you go over 1W you do need to have a system in place to automatically use the lowest power neccessary(there are linear amps that can do this but are quite expensive.) I didn't mean to say everyone jump out and use 50-100W, just that they wanted to use 1W and that would be more then exceptable since 100W is the limit. All hams try to use the least power possible. Glad to see you did read up on this though, in my area some hams do use 802.11 for radio, but again, we use MUCH less then the max power.
All you need is a ham radio license and to reclassify this gear as part 97. You can then have up to 100W into the antenna and ERP much higher. Check this link: http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/Ham_Et hernet_GBPPR.pdf to find out more. If this is just expermintation and has nothing to do with business then this would be what they need. (make sure you check out the section of power limits in that above link, 100W at 2.4Ghz into 24dBi dish = 25118.8 W EIRP and still perfectly legal. The FCC makes the rules but luckily they make it easy to do what these people want to do, again if its not business related that is.
Just thought of this too...have you tried a different antenna? a beam ant would be small at those freqs. and would cut out alot of noise off the back and sides of it. It would also direct more of your signal at the other machine. You only need to get above the noise, not cut it out completely. I believe all these devices are FM so if it can grab on to your signal it should ignore most of the noise.(like when your driving and your between two radio stations, you only get one or the other, not usually both). Just another idea that would be much cheaper. Oh, and good filtering would help too.
-Tom
Other people mentioned this but just a little more info. Ham radio would give you more then enough choices of freq. and a good speed choice too(300bps - over 1M/s) BUT, you would need a license(not hard to get, quick 50 or so question test and $6.) Also, you wouldn't be able to use it for anything buisness related. if you just want to experminent then this would be the way to go. I've found 70cm band(around 440MHZ) to be fairly clear in noisy places and if its too noisy, you may just have to lower the speed but it still could work. Equipments spendy too though and for real high speed you might have to build some yourself. Borrow a wide band receiver and see what freqs are clean in your facility.
I use mine everyday at work for taking quick notes, usually just one or two words at a time. Its better than going through a pocket notebook a month in my opinion. Plus, I get to play games whenever I'm bored. Basically, I feel weird if I don't have it on me. Now if my palm only played mp3s...
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After the last story on here about this, I looked into it a little bit. I was able to find that bpl has been tried in Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Austria, Finland, England(originally by Nortel), singapore, and holland. There may be others but I'm not sure. In these cases, it was called off because of a)interference, and b)the high costs. This isn't a technology that can be used in rural areas, its too expensive. This will just provide another option for people with existing options(not a bad idea, but not what they're saying.)
I was able to find a website that tracked complaints, but can't find it now, there were over 60 complaints filed with the fcc, only 2 of which were resolved(probably more now as a few were in cedar rapids.) The recent case with jim was used because he kept such good records, even having the power company turn the system off to compare.
Just a couple things, I would love to see more options for internet, but with companies like boeing against this, and also the possibililty to knock out dsl service, I just don't like it.
-Tom
As some people said, this is old news. There is currently a ham in Iowa who is filing a complaint with the FCC for repeated intentional interference - the usual communications act of 1934 and part 15 rules violations. This is the first official complaint that is going to the fcc so is the thing to watch. more info is at http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/06/15/2/ for anyone who wants to check it out.
Your right about power, if you go over 1W you do need to have a system in place to automatically use the lowest power neccessary(there are linear amps that can do this but are quite expensive.) I didn't mean to say everyone jump out and use 50-100W, just that they wanted to use 1W and that would be more then exceptable since 100W is the limit. All hams try to use the least power possible. Glad to see you did read up on this though, in my area some hams do use 802.11 for radio, but again, we use MUCH less then the max power.
-Tom
All you need is a ham radio license and to reclassify this gear as part 97. You can then have up to 100W into the antenna and ERP much higher. Check this link: http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/Ham_Et hernet_GBPPR.pdf to find out more. If this is just expermintation and has nothing to do with business then this would be what they need.
(make sure you check out the section of power limits in that above link, 100W at 2.4Ghz into 24dBi dish = 25118.8 W EIRP and still perfectly legal. The FCC makes the rules but luckily they make it easy to do what these people want to do, again if its not business related that is.
-Tom
Just thought of this too...have you tried a different antenna? a beam ant would be small at those freqs. and would cut out alot of noise off the back and sides of it. It would also direct more of your signal at the other machine. You only need to get above the noise, not cut it out completely. I believe all these devices are FM so if it can grab on to your signal it should ignore most of the noise.(like when your driving and your between two radio stations, you only get one or the other, not usually both). Just another idea that would be much cheaper. Oh, and good filtering would help too.
-Tom
Other people mentioned this but just a little more info. Ham radio would give you more then enough choices of freq. and a good speed choice too(300bps - over 1M/s) BUT, you would need a license(not hard to get, quick 50 or so question test and $6.) Also, you wouldn't be able to use it for anything buisness related. if you just want to experminent then this would be the way to go. I've found 70cm band(around 440MHZ) to be fairly clear in noisy places and if its too noisy, you may just have to lower the speed but it still could work. Equipments spendy too though and for real high speed you might have to build some yourself. Borrow a wide band receiver and see what freqs are clean in your facility.
-Tom
I use mine everyday at work for taking quick notes, usually just one or two words at a time. Its better than going through a pocket notebook a month in my opinion. Plus, I get to play games whenever I'm bored. Basically, I feel weird if I don't have it on me. Now if my palm only played mp3s...