[LakelandARC] Re: 30GHz broadband ISP

[Matthew Stevens]

That was pretty much my initial reaction.... I predict the Boston test is not going to be quite the success they are hoping for. Even assuming they are able to go high enough to not have buildings, trees or whatever obstructing the signal, what about rain, snow, fog, etc etc. (all of which they seem to get a lot of in the Boston area).

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> On Jan 28, 2016, at 09:52, larc2 at evanszone.com [LakelandARC] <LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> There's probably good reason to call this a "Beta". Consider what it means to have Line-of-Sight at 38 GHz. Everything in the path becomes an obstacle, and even things close to the LOS path become an obstacle. If you use reflections and not LOS, then what you have is Multipath distortion, which is a serious detriment to radio communication, not an advantage. With less than a 1-mile practical range, the cost for equipment and towers could be astronomical. I wonder how receptive local governments will be to having large towers erected at many times the density of current cell towers...
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> There's a lot of marketing hype on their website, most of which are just false claims. It will be interesting to see what the results of the Boston deployment are. I also wonder how he gets two radios placed in a home with a steerable phased-array antenna system for only $25. I would buy one for $25 just to take apart and experiment with. I would also like to see the cost for, say 200 Mbps, Internet service. If it is "orders of magnitude" cheaper, as the claims say, that would put it the monthly service at about $1 per month. 
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