Re: About WiFi7

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:17:13 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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"john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message news:mikecjlu0negpkia8e5i18u946l0n99qar@4ax.com...

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:50:56 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
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About WiFi7
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/communications/wireless/wifi/article/55132520/skyworks-solutions-what-is-wi-fi-7-and-why-does-it-matter
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Anybody using this?
https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/asus-rt-be58u-extendable-router-wifi-7-dual-band-aimesh-2-5g-poort/9300000183145514/

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Some day we won't have cell towers or wifi or cable modems or fiber to
the premises, just one universal wireless system for everything.

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Where will the other end of the wireless link to/from your device be?

The dish on the roof? I points to some other MonkeyBrains dish
somewhere and all that eventually connects to some fast fibers
somewhere, I guess.

We're getting about 80+40 Mbits speed, which is OK I guess. This
office is down in a village low in the Alamany Gap so the microwave
optics isn 't great.

At our main office we have much better line-of-sight (maybe 10 square
miles visible from the roof) so it gets about 500+500.

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Data
transport is a mess now.
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I just opened a new engineering office. I had to get an internet
provider (we went with a MonkeyBrains dish on the roof)

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Not all of us live in places where it never snows.
Heavy rain can cause issues.

It doesn't snow in San Francisco and heavy rain is a rare novelty. Our
main meterological feature is fog.

3-phase power lines are 3 wires, without the high grounding wire you'd
see in many places. We don't get lightning either.

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, a 10-port PoE
switch, a mild nightmare of local interconnect and CAT5 wiring

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I'd have used CAT6

The worst possible wimpy wire unshielded CAT5 (or maybe it's cat 0.5)
wiring is already buried in the walls.

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to
various offices, a wifi router,

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I'd have used a business class firewall.
https://www.pfsense.org/ works well for me.
I can go anywhere and use my own network as if I was there.
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and all sorts of plywood and shelves.
Envision treks to Loews.
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Barbaric.
 

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One of my admin ladies also flies drones! She's going to fly around
our roof and film the dish and the HVAC stuff and various views. She
wants me to teach her how to use power tools. Her husband is not
"handy."