700 Mhz Spectrum Auction
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200708 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 18:28:41 CEST 2007
Ian Stirling <OpenMoko at mauve.plus.com>
writes:
> So you missed the earlier comment from someone who has problems with
> wifi working reliably due to overloading?
It would have been hard for me to miss it since I was the one that
made it. ;-)
> Consider that if current wifi went through obstructions, and had a 4
> fold range improvement that you get 16 times the interfering stations.
Actually, I'm a greedy little b-stard. I want N-times increased
coverage and well over N-times as much spectrum. The whole cellular
pricing structure hinges on folks not having any alternatives. There
is *lots* of spectrum and the public is shoehorned into a few small
~100Mhz bands.
> You cannot expect performance similar to managed networks on unmanaged
> networks.
There is nothing magical about the cell-tower firmware that free/open
access point code couldn't also do. You want power control, WIFI
could do that if needed. You want hand-off to other frequencies, open
sourced code could do that too.
> However, it only takes two users streaming files between themselves to
> kill connectivity for everyone else.
There is nothing preventing fair-share routing/filtering. This is
actually a common filter that both Linux and BSD kernels have
available in their IP filtering subsystems. In fact, there is a lot
of research on various different "fairness" algorithms. This is one
of the things that open-source will almost certainly do better since
there are tons of competing ideas and tons of research papers.
-wolfgang
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