Posted on 09/21/2016 7:28:39 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
AT&T Reveals Secret Plan For Wi-Fi Even Faster Than Google Fiber
http://www.forbes.com/sites/shelbycarpenter/2016/09/20/att-secret-plan-wifi-fast-google-fiber/#376df98e643b
Tech #AllThingsMobile Sep 20, 2016 @ 08:03 PM
AT&T Reveals Secret Plan For Wi-Fi Even Faster Than Google Fiber
Shelby Carpenter
Think Google Fiber is the hottest thing in Internet connectivity?
Well, there’s a new kid on the block in the unlikely form of wireless stalwart AT&T.
The new plan, called Project AirGig, was announced in a press release on Tuesday and AT&T says it comes as the result of over 10 years of research and 100 patent applications for new technologies.
AirGig is still highly experimental, but would eventually bring customers wireless Internet speeds greater than 1 gigabit per second.
For perspective, Google Fiber, the fastest commercially available Wi-Fi, provides speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second and is only offered in select urban areas.
Most Americans still have Wi-Fi speeds in the tens of megabits, mere fractions of Google Fiber or AirGig.
The good thing about the system is that it would piggy-back off of existing infrastructure.
Using a network of low-cost, patent-pending antennas and devices, AirGig would transmit a millimeter wave signal along (but not directly through) power lines.
You would then get multi-gigabit Wi-Fi in your home without having a cord running to anything.
Apart from allowing for super-fast home Wi-Fi, AirGig would also represent the beginnings a 5G cellular data network.
The bad news: AT&T said that AirGig won’t even begin limited field trials until next year, which means widespread availability of the service could be years away.
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64Kb was plenty.
That will be great - unless we lose the internet!
AT&T has a secret plan to end the war?
This is not new. The first attempt was by a company called MetriCom. They had the same idea but had too may obstacles in their way. They had to get permission from all the major power companies and phone companies to use their poles. Eventually, they just have up. That is what I recall with a few specifics missing.
Who needs the Internet?
AirGig wifi everywhere could be ideal for overlords to read our RFID implants to better serve us ;n)
/s
RE: “that will be great - unless we lose the internet!”
Heh, I remember that one.
What about all the neighborhoods without poles, where power and phone services are all underground ?
The EU has promised free wifi to all member states by 2020
http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-eu-has-promised-free-wifi-to-all-member-states-by-2020-2016-9??r=US&IR=T
Oct 1 the internet will be turned off until the new owner figures it out
I’ve found that wireless ends up requiring more wires. The last 15 feet is great though.
Ongoing search for middle and last-mile solutions
Lord help me, but I can’t STAND the way the term “Wi-fi” has been conflated with “Internet”...
We can always tell when AT&T is working on their new system somewhere in our neighborhood because all our internet service goes down, reportedly from a cut cable. We have no poles anywhere and all cables go through an easement area on the back of the property.
Fiber will be the backbone, but wireless is much cheaper and more flexible to bridge fiber into the home.
I lived in the Bay Area when MetriCom was active. The big issues were:
1. MetriCom was expensive.
2. MetriCom was not very fast--speeds comparable to, but slower than, dial up modems.
3. MetriCom required an external modem the size of a small brick.
These were the specifics that killed MetriCom. I thought about subscribing, but the cost and disadvantages above persuaded me not to.
Settled science, BB.
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Super laser 10 km range with No degradation even in harsh rain or heavy fog.
Can also be used to blind and burn birds of all types!
Brave new world ~
RE: “Ongoing search for middle and last-mile solutions”
Have no fear, freak’in sharkless comm lasers are here!
http://www.aoptix.com/products/high-capacity-wireless-transport/intellimax-mb-2000/
Thank you. So for the most part I was correct?
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