So in your apartment or rent house (for those of us living in apartments), which you rent, you have no right to privacy????? I think not! The car I lease from Ford, you would argue that I have no rights to privacy to it? The only real difference is the length of contract and amount of money.
You may want to re-think your renters rights views....
as is said, to properly use this, you have to know how something about it. I post to wISP mailing list every day, so i tend to get lazy and assume everyone knows i am talking about 902mhz, 2.4ghz, and 5.2-5.8ghz bands. This 'junk' as you call it, is host to over 5000 wISPs nation wide now. We make more use than most (not all) HAM operators on the crapy frequencies that the govt has let us use. We (wISPs) have developed enterprise level hardware (Cisco, waveridder, breezecom, ect) based on this 'junk' as you call it.
I love HAM operators, I have some very nice ones who are my customers. Even several major ARRL lobbyists are our customers, which has helped in recent decisions to get the govt to open more unlicensed bands.
BTW, if you check your ARRL handbook, when it talks about ISM bands, it says HAM operators are ALSO secondary users to this band. The only primary users on this band is the few licensed users, and it states you have to make sure you do not cause interference to them, and to part15b users.
we have been doing this for over a year now, www.newgenwireless.com
IT works great, we stay on top of technology. We are currently running on 3 ISM Bands, 900, 2.4, and 5ghz systems. We get lots of business using this, and its MUCH more profitable than dial-up service.
you gota know what you are doing though, this isn't like throwing a computer together. You have to watch out for interference, know if you need to use FHSS or DSSS, if a band is too noisy, ect... Don't even get me on packet retransmissions due to trees and water!.
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So in your apartment or rent house (for those of us living in apartments), which you rent, you have no right to privacy????? I think not!
The car I lease from Ford, you would argue that I have no rights to privacy to it? The only real difference is the length of contract and amount of money.
You may want to re-think your renters rights views....
For a upgrade, one word. Tazer.
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as is said, to properly use this, you have to know how something about it. I post to wISP mailing list every day, so i tend to get lazy and assume everyone knows i am talking about 902mhz, 2.4ghz, and 5.2-5.8ghz bands. This 'junk' as you call it, is host to over 5000 wISPs nation wide now. We make more use than most (not all) HAM operators on the crapy frequencies that the govt has let us use. We (wISPs) have developed enterprise level hardware (Cisco, waveridder, breezecom, ect) based on this 'junk' as you call it.
I love HAM operators, I have some very nice ones who are my customers. Even several major ARRL lobbyists are our customers, which has helped in recent decisions to get the govt to open more unlicensed bands.
BTW, if you check your ARRL handbook, when it talks about ISM bands, it says HAM operators are ALSO secondary users to this band. The only primary users on this band is the few licensed users, and it states you have to make sure you do not cause interference to them, and to part15b users.
we have been doing this for over a year now,
www.newgenwireless.com
IT works great, we stay on top of technology. We are currently running on 3 ISM Bands, 900, 2.4, and 5ghz systems. We get lots of business using this, and its MUCH more profitable than dial-up service.
you gota know what you are doing though, this isn't like throwing a computer together. You have to watch out for interference, know if you need to use FHSS or DSSS, if a band is too noisy, ect... Don't even get me on packet retransmissions due to trees and water!.