Frank, that's quite exciting news. White-Fi with 3 x the range of wifi and therefore 10 x the coverage [near enough for government work] and with the cost of little routers shrinking, means a single router connected to fibre or some fast backhaul would enable downloads to pop out of fibre, hop across hundreds of metres of aether into a multitude of devices in the vicinity at a fraction of the cost of the current methods.
bloomberg.com
At present, Zenbu's little WRT54GL router signals run out of steam before they get through a row of concrete block walls to the end of a row of motel units. Goofing around with ethernet cables and Ubiquiti Nanostation2 to extend coverage is expensive.
With an upgrade to White-Fi, one router could nuke substantial accommodation premises, large campgrounds, and hundreds of holiday homes where people want cyberspace but don't want to pay for a permanent internet connection.
That will put fibre in range of vast acreages. Fibre to the home is nice, but unnecessary in most instances. Fibre could be run to within cooee of the final destination and a White-Fi router pop the signal over the last mile, or at least the last kilometre of even just the last couple of hundred metres.
Now we are really getting somewhere.
Excellent.
Already, with Ubiquiti Nanostation2 connected to ADSL, we can cover reasonable areas with 20th century wifi. With 21st century WhiteFi, a whole new world opens up, akin to the plains of America in the 18th century [or whenever it was] and the islands of the Pacific Ocean [though Polynesians filled it hundreds of years before Europeans got to the further reaches].
The likes of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Telecom New Zealand and other evil-doers will find serious competition rising like a miasma out of the marshes and swamps [aka wetlands in Greenie parlance] surrounding them.
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