Google experimented with balloons. If nobody has screwed around with AP's on quad-copter drones I'd be surprised. Maybe that'll be the final answer to muni-wifi. When signal sucks, the AP can fly closer to you. </joking></toungueInCheek></wiseAss>
________________________________ From: AF on behalf of Ken Hohhof Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 10:57 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD I don’t want the LEO satellites getting closer to the customers, they can stay up there at 500 miles, I don’t want them whizzing over my head at 50 feet like an Amazon delivery drone. In the case of fixed wireless, it’s one thing to put APs <1000 feet from the customer and use mmWave. But out in the country, we have some APs where the first customer is almost a mile from the tower. We aim for 6 miles between towers and 3 mile cell radius. If we shrink rural cells much more than that, there will be 1 house, some crops, and maybe some horses or cows within range. But that one house could get gigabit Internet! From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Jan-GAMs Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 9:45 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD It wasn't that long ago when all you could get was 5MB hubs and they were expensive and didn't work all that well. On 3/21/25 08:40, Steve Jones wrote: they should not allow fixed wireless, they never should have allowed technology with a short shelf life On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com<mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: Well.... https://bsky.app/profile/craigsilverman.bsky.social/post/3lkiye5n2dk2p https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/seq3uoU1L5 The director of BEAD quit. He says the previous rules interpreted the bill to mean that only FTTH would meet the performance and future-proofing requirements. He is claiming that there are proposed rule changes that will allow Starlink but not allow fixed wireless. I don't know whether the changes intentionally benefit Starlink, but this guy is crying foul and felt strongly enough about it to resign over it. -Adam ________________________________ From: AF on behalf of Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2025 12:19 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: [AFMUG] BEAD I’m surprised BEAD hasn’t run into problems because the E stands for Equity and DEI is now banned. But if they eliminate the E, would it just be BAD? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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