Hello Folks.. I blinked for a moment and when I opened my eyes I find that there's an excellent discussion going on concerning a topic that is going to have profound implications in a year or two, for better or worse, when the whiz kids get there way (and they are, indeed, asking for this) in the WLAN area. As well as IP on everything, follow me telephone over IP, instant messaging, presence, video wrist watches, etc.
I've had my moments of trepidation concerning collisions, too, despite the promise of spread spectrum, purely from an intuitive sense that I have on the matter. Of course, I hope that I'm wrong about this.
When I was a ham operator a thousand years ago it was okay to be on 40 meters with a million other people who had nothing better to do, because my ear could discern any one of a hundred different correspondents that I normally had contact with, purely from their "fist", i.e., the way they made Morse sound like musical instrumentation, each unique unto themselves.
I don't know if any such idiosyncratic signaturization is possible here amongst spread spectrum frequencies that are overcrowded. I know for a fact that there are many discussions now underway among tenants in the same skyscrapers to use wireless LAN.
This is an area that could turn out to be a godsend, or a disaster, depending on how reality unfolds. |
