How much do you think this will hurt WISPs? I'm assuming it will work over shorter distances than most WISPs operate over today but this in combination with further densification and extra bands of LTE should make them very competitive.
Well that's actually mostly what they are doing. LTE is plenty fast enough today and will likely be for quite some time however in areas with high density they currently have to use more smaller cells to give everyone decent speeds lets guess 1Gbps to a tower that would allow (ignoring overhead) 100 people on tower to all use 10Mbps simultaneously.
Considering some towers do about half of that now with carrier aggregation I'd think the new ones would do significantly better. So assuming they manage to bump it up to 10Gbps that would get them up to 1000 people at 10Mbps or 100 at 100Mbps
That should greatly improve reliability in my opinion. Also this isn't really supposed to be rolling out until 2020 or so if they pickup anything before then it will be 4G all over again with BSing the standard with marketing terms but not providing nearly what was promised.
As for availability verizon and at&t are available most everywhere now and t-moblie for instance is supposed to be getting way better this year alone. http://bgr.com/2017/02/15/t-mo...
Not only this but some providers have restrictions on what devices you can have service on as it is now you can swap in an already active sim and everything just works.
Now imagine that device that *celco name here* wouldn't activate had an esim instead. Now you're totally screwed.
This is like moving back to the cdma days where you had to contact your cellco to switch devices.
Well it's been several years ago I know ID was not required for anyone other than the driver at the time and I don't remember them even asking for that just what we were crossing for.
Let me tell you those border agents have no sense of humor if they ask "is that your daughter?" the correct response is not "my wife says she is".
When before all you had to have to drive across the border was an oklahoma ID (at most we had no further ID with us at the time). For requiring a passport closed seemed an appropriate term maybe I should have used "less open"? I don't really know how to term the difference.
My understanding was after 9/11 a passport was required as a minimum ID for a border crossing and it had never been set back to a state ID being acceptable.
Should have the building loan paid off in a decade or two then we should be able to do things again.
And they don't require a passport? That's great news to me!
Say hello to the Canadians for me from oklahoma please. I am not likely to get another chance to sightsee for another several years. No time or $ for vacations anymore.
The only other country i've been to is canada and that was only for a few hours to see Niagara Falls but since 9/11 the borders have been closed so you can't even do that now without a passport.
I get to deal with second hand laptops everyday I don't know what's more stupid that they are still making brand new windows 10 laptops with only 2GB of memory or that people still buy them windows will run out of memory just running windows update on a clean copy of windows 7 8 or 10 with just 2GB and lockup for the next couple days paged to disk.
A few years ago it wasn't very common but in recent years they they have started doing it all the time I suppose to begin with they were concerned about being sued but then after they started doing it they just had so much fun everyone else joined in.
IME it's a little easier and a little harder selling on amazon vs ebay. On amazon you have to be approved to post something as new. Some item categories you have to be approved to post in any condition it's not just art and stuff I was not allowed to resell a USB transfer cable that I bought on amazon.
On amazon you are required to have a photo with a white background so it blends in with the site but you aren't required to have a photo. On ebay they require a photo but you can take a blurry photo with your 0.5MP digital camera or a stock photo of some random unrelated product and be fine.
I haven't tried sending anything to amazon to let them fulfill an order yet so I don't know how that part works.
The very first item I sold on amazon was returned because their mail forwarding address had expired. I was able to do a partial refund and return all but the shipping fee since USPS doesn't refund your money if they can't deliver still ended up being shorted about $0.10 due to the estimated shipping being very close to the actual shipping and amazon taking their fee out of it.
As for prices in my experience very small items are usually higher or not available on amazon also lots items are more likely to be found cheaper in lots on ebay than on amazon.
IME ebay is more WYSIWYG since sellers posting images of the actual item is still common where as on amazon you have 20+ sellers sharing a listing and not one has bothered to post a picture of what they are selling or made any remarks about its condition.
If you are going to post any type of food on amazon please put the date on the tin in the listing.
If there is more capacity to begin with there is more speed available when you split it. Think about it you could provide a 10,000 people with 10Mbps service with just one 100Gbps access point!
The problem is this is in the higher frequency bands and according to wikipedia the EHF bands are only good for about half a mile.
If the alternative the page never loading fully no matter how many time you refresh it yes?
I remember several years ago (2005?) with EA games trying to download game packs from the in game store I couldn't download anything over 7MB or so because the download would timeout.
Apparently the developers never expected someone with dialup would want to use their stuff. So while the download would have eventually finished without problem because the brilliant minds at EA decided a 10 MB download shouldn't take more than 10 minutes it wasn't possible.
Google is the biggest offender on that IMHO as they give a lightly modified version to mobile users.
What did they do? They took out the ability to view the cached pages because who uses that amirite?
If you turn off javascript the buttons come back and it works fine though.
The Interactive Discussion System (D2) here can't be adjusted on iOS but their Classic Discussion System (D1) can. with the mobile view you lose most all controls
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I know I can move data at 2MBps on 802.11g I can't imagine single channel 802.11a would be slower unless there is interference on that channel too.
So what are we getting to replace it then? I haven't seen any consumer gear that used anything other than 5ghz or 2.4ghz.
How much do you think this will hurt WISPs?
I'm assuming it will work over shorter distances than most WISPs operate over today but this in combination with further densification and extra bands of LTE should make them very competitive.
Seeing at&t offer 500GB on their LTE network for $100 and $10/10GB overage has changed my mind about that.
I'd still prefer unlimited but I could get by with 500GB easily enough.
Well that's actually mostly what they are doing.
LTE is plenty fast enough today and will likely be for quite some time however in areas with high density they currently have to use more smaller cells to give everyone decent speeds lets guess 1Gbps to a tower that would allow (ignoring overhead) 100 people on tower to all use 10Mbps simultaneously.
Considering some towers do about half of that now with carrier aggregation I'd think the new ones would do significantly better.
So assuming they manage to bump it up to 10Gbps that would get them up to 1000 people at 10Mbps or 100 at 100Mbps
That should greatly improve reliability in my opinion.
Also this isn't really supposed to be rolling out until 2020 or so if they pickup anything before then it will be 4G all over again with BSing the standard with marketing terms but not providing nearly what was promised.
As for availability verizon and at&t are available most everywhere now and t-moblie for instance is supposed to be getting way better this year alone. http://bgr.com/2017/02/15/t-mo...
Not only this but some providers have restrictions on what devices you can have service on as it is now you can swap in an already active sim and everything just works.
Now imagine that device that *celco name here* wouldn't activate had an esim instead. Now you're totally screwed.
This is like moving back to the cdma days where you had to contact your cellco to switch devices.
Well it's been several years ago I know ID was not required for anyone other than the driver at the time and I don't remember them even asking for that just what we were crossing for.
Let me tell you those border agents have no sense of humor if they ask "is that your daughter?" the correct response is not "my wife says she is".
When before all you had to have to drive across the border was an oklahoma ID (at most we had no further ID with us at the time). For requiring a passport closed seemed an appropriate term maybe I should have used "less open"? I don't really know how to term the difference.
My understanding was after 9/11 a passport was required as a minimum ID for a border crossing and it had never been set back to a state ID being acceptable.
Should have the building loan paid off in a decade or two then we should be able to do things again.
And they don't require a passport?
That's great news to me!
Say hello to the Canadians for me from oklahoma please.
I am not likely to get another chance to sightsee for another several years. No time or $ for vacations anymore.
Tmobile (at least according to their own site) has been all in since january 5th.
When did you try and get service?
I was replying to https://slashdot.org/comments....
The part that said "Yeah, we suck. We just think we are better than everyone else because we never go anywhere else."
Afaik the border is still closed.
Didn't canada close their borders to the US after 9/11?
You could always get directv and then get unlimited data.
Or go with t-mobile, verizon or sprint without having to have an extra service.
AFAIK bingeon is still available.
The only other country i've been to is canada and that was only for a few hours to see Niagara Falls but since 9/11 the borders have been closed so you can't even do that now without a passport.
I get to deal with second hand laptops everyday I don't know what's more stupid that they are still making brand new windows 10 laptops with only 2GB of memory or that people still buy them windows will run out of memory just running windows update on a clean copy of windows 7 8 or 10 with just 2GB and lockup for the next couple days paged to disk.
A few years ago it wasn't very common but in recent years they they have started doing it all the time I suppose to begin with they were concerned about being sued but then after they started doing it they just had so much fun everyone else joined in.
Probably about 15 years ago.
Wired connections are cheaper and faster! But since they aren't available this is the best we can get!
IME it's a little easier and a little harder selling on amazon vs ebay.
On amazon you have to be approved to post something as new. Some item categories you have to be approved to post in any condition it's not just art and stuff I was not allowed to resell a USB transfer cable that I bought on amazon.
On amazon you are required to have a photo with a white background so it blends in with the site but you aren't required to have a photo. On ebay they require a photo but you can take a blurry photo with your 0.5MP digital camera or a stock photo of some random unrelated product and be fine.
I haven't tried sending anything to amazon to let them fulfill an order yet so I don't know how that part works.
The very first item I sold on amazon was returned because their mail forwarding address had expired.
I was able to do a partial refund and return all but the shipping fee since USPS doesn't refund your money if they can't deliver still ended up being shorted about $0.10 due to the estimated shipping being very close to the actual shipping and amazon taking their fee out of it.
As for prices in my experience very small items are usually higher or not available on amazon also lots items are more likely to be found cheaper in lots on ebay than on amazon.
IME ebay is more WYSIWYG since sellers posting images of the actual item is still common where as on amazon you have 20+ sellers sharing a listing and not one has bothered to post a picture of what they are selling or made any remarks about its condition.
If you are going to post any type of food on amazon please put the date on the tin in the listing.
If there is more capacity to begin with there is more speed available when you split it. Think about it you could provide a 10,000 people with 10Mbps service with just one 100Gbps access point!
The problem is this is in the higher frequency bands and according to wikipedia the EHF bands are only good for about half a mile.
I seem to remember someone mentioning the four pests campaign where they killed some birds and bugs ate all the food.
As for deer that's not really a significant problem in this part of okahoma feral hogs on the other hand have gotten to be a huge problem.
When I was on satellite I was using a program similar to treewalk dns ( I can't remember the name) to cache DNS
Is WWWOFFLE still going? or are you talking about something else?
If the alternative the page never loading fully no matter how many time you refresh it yes?
I remember several years ago (2005?) with EA games trying to download game packs from the in game store I couldn't download anything over 7MB or so because the download would timeout.
Apparently the developers never expected someone with dialup would want to use their stuff.
So while the download would have eventually finished without problem because the brilliant minds at EA decided a 10 MB download shouldn't take more than 10 minutes it wasn't possible.
Google is the biggest offender on that IMHO as they give a lightly modified version to mobile users.
What did they do? They took out the ability to view the cached pages because who uses that amirite?
If you turn off javascript the buttons come back and it works fine though.
The Interactive Discussion System (D2) here can't be adjusted on iOS but their Classic Discussion System (D1) can.
with the mobile view you lose most all controls
Lenny is still going! https://www.reddit.com/r/itsle...
So my flip phone is still good?