New white space standard: up to 22Mbps over 12,000 square mile

[Arinoth]

This could really help out some rural areas whom are getting absolutely horrible speeds right now, at hopefully reasonably priced packages.

New white space standard: up to 22Mbps over 12,000 square miles

[_dangtx_]

more pollution :)

but yeah, decent speeds out in the goonies would be cool

[LarkStarr]

62 mile radius = 12,000 miles?

but what they really mean to say is maybe 11 mbps across 20 mile radius. which itself isn't bad at all. I just hate using theoretical maximums.

[Arinoth]

I'm fairly certain a lot of rural people are lucky if they can get 1-2Mbps down out in the middle of no where with horrible upload speeds

[martin_metal_88]

This is kinda a good way to re-use what was already here. I love this better than a new standard. The question is, will my bunny ears be able to get it :P

[PerryC]

Originally Posted by LarkStarr

62 mile radius = 12,000 miles?

Not miles... square miles. The area of a circle with a 62 mile radius is about 12070 square miles.


Have to be a whole of nodes being set up to get any decent coverage though.

[Arinoth]

Not necessarily, the lower in frequency we go, the longer the wavelength of the signal is, which in turn means we need to repeat the signal less the longer a signal's wavelength is.

[PerryC]

I was thinking more of intereference from ground clutter or weather. Even digital signals suffer beacuase of those factors.

[MARSTG]

yes but not much. and the future is wireless not by cable, with all the pains and issues that will come along