mobile WiFi accesspoint?

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RE: mobile WiFi accesspoint?Casey, are you familiar with the 3.65-3.70 GHz spectrum developments?  

FCC recently clarified use with upper and lower 25 MHz bands arranged for WiMAX and contention based MACs.  We should see fairly rapid availability and deployment.  This is semi-unlicensed: users must register their base stations but otherwise do not have to take a license for the spectrum.

Some possibilities include use of 3.65 as back haul for WiFi, for RAN access, and as devices become more available and lower cost , for general service. The advantages include higher power (25W peak EIRP/25 MHz for fixed stations and 1W peak EIRP/25 MHz for mobile and nomadic stations). 

Robert Syputa
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Casey Halverson 
  To: SeattleWireless Talk List ; SeattleWireless Talk List 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:12 PM
  Subject: RE: mobile WiFi accesspoint?


  In preparation for the IPhone, AT&T boosted their EDGE capacity .... before the launch, you could actually get a near advertised rate of about 200kbps.  I cant say this is the case right now ;) 

  UMTS draws a lot of power, which would be a lethal mix for something like the iphone.  When you try to side-step qualcomm patents...you get nothing but crap.

  -----Original Message-----
  From: talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net on behalf of gary
  Sent: Tue 7/3/2007 7:27 PM
  To: SeattleWireless Talk List
  Subject: Re: mobile WiFi accesspoint?

  I recall hearing a radio interview with some Blackberry representative
  that they were sticking with EDGE for power consumption reasons. It
  sounded like double-speak to me since you would think a phone with HSDPA
  could fall back to EDGE.

  I have EDGE and will confirm it is way too slow, though in some markets
  it is better than others. In the SF Bay Area, EDGE is on continual
  overload. When I use it in socal or Vegas, it is like a turbo has been
  installed.

  The only thing I can say positive about EDGE is the GSM network in
  general seems to work better than other services I've had when roaming.
  That is, I think the networks are more uniform across the country. I
  can't tell you how much time I spent with Verizon trying to get voice to
  work in some markets that I would not call rural. I've run EDGE without
  a hitch everywhere I've traveled (assuming the service is available.)

  On an unrelated note, now that Speakeasy is under Best Buy, should I be
  looking for a new DSL provider?

  Daniel Marsh wrote:
  > I have seen a lot of real world speed tests that show that HSDPA
  > typically delivers 60-70% of the downlink capacity of EVDO rev A. There
  > are very few handsets on the market that support HSDPA and HSDPA has
  > only been deployed in a very limited number (17 was the last number I
  > saw) of markets. On the other hand, both Sprint and Verizon offer EVDO
  > rev A throughout pretty much their whole network and can fall back on
  > 1xRTT if need be. Of the two, Sprint seems to score higher in download
  > tests and has a much better end user agreement/acceptable use policy.
  > ATT's only fallback option is EDGE, which is ungodly slow and actually
  > crashed for most of the day nationwide as all the Iphone maniacs tried
  > to suck down videos of skateboarding dogs off Youtube.
  >
  > -Daniel Marsh
  >
  >> It clearly isn't and latency is higher.
  >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution-Data_Optimized
  >>
  >>
  >> ----- Original Message -----
  >> From: "Casey Halverson" <casey.halverson at infospace.com>
  >> To: "SeattleWireless Talk List" <talk at seattlewireless.net>
  >> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:55 AM
  >> Subject: RE: mobile WiFi accesspoint?
  >>
  >>
  >>  
  >>> Where did you hear that Cingular's UMTS offering is faster than EVDO Rev
  >>> A?
  >>>
  >>>
  >>>    
  >>>> -----Original Message-----
  >>>> From: talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net [mailto:talk-
  >>>> bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of Ajay Shekhawat
  >>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 10:04 PM
  >>>> To: talk at seattlewireless.net
  >>>> Subject: mobile WiFi accesspoint?
  >>>>
  >>>>
  >>>> Can anyone recommend a WiFi AP with a 3G uplink (preferably Cingular,
  >>>> since its 3G is much faster than Sprint's EVDO).
  >>>>
  >>>> Thanks,
  >>>>
  >>>> Ajay
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