If we can do everything wirelessly that we can do with wires/fiber then wireless can hardly be a dead issue in the last mile, can it?
>>Does this M/Ergy system and others like it work to a "good enough" standard?<<
What I want, and what I expect an awful of other ordinary people want, is to take a laptop with me, turn it on, and have the internet, phone service, etc. with no teensy weensy pictures and no aching long downloads. No waiting for the company tech to come and tell me that's all she wrote until the wiring's upgraded or until the SP gets around to upgrading. In fact, no techie visit, period. Go in the store, get the gizmo, turn it on, and operate just as if I were attached by cable or DSL
(I don't want wires all over the house, either. Why the hell doesn't the cable/phoneline end at that plate on the wall? Why does it have to come at all? I digress )
I've mentioned Comdev on this thread and FAC before, asking particularly about this release:
COM DEV's M/ERGY(TM) Field Trial Successfully Records Technical Milestone
CAMBRIDGE, ON, May 31 /CNW/ - COM DEV International Ltd. (TSE:CDV) today
announced that its M/ERGY(TM) team successfully demonstrated broadband
wireless Internet usage while in transit at speeds up to 120 km/h. This event
marks an important milestone in the development of M/ERGY, the Company's
wireless Internet access system. In addition to technical measurements used to
validate the system's capability to support data transfer rates of 2.45 Mbps,
multiple e-mail messages were sent over the Internet. M/ERGY is a packet-based
system that will deliver high-speed wireless Internet data at speeds
comparable to current cable and DSL modems and incorporate voice-over IP
capability. newswire.ca
Lots of interesting spin at the company website. I can't seem to copy it. too bad.
comdev.ca
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