To: CoffeePot who wrote (243 ) 9/13/1999 12:32:00 AM From: Nazbuster Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 538
ydi.com internet If you look carefully, you will see exact phrases and paraphrased words in AMPD's press release. BTW, notice the date. This is NOT new technology. P.S. Credit for this find goes to Peter Michaelson. Monday, October 19, 1998 Contact: Michael Young 703-237-9090 Falls Church, VA - YDI, a manufacturer of wireless data communication equipment, based in Falls Church, has just announced a pilot program to offer high speed wireless Internet Access in the Falls Church area. Using equipment in the license free 2.4 GHz band, YDI is able to offer subscribers Internet Access with speeds up to 2,000 Kbps (2 Mbps), 70 times faster than a 28.8 Kbps dial-up telephone connection! Also, this high speed connection will be available automatically 24 hours a day - no dialing or user intervention is necessary. At the subscribers' location, users can purchase a wireless Access Point device from YDI which would connect to a wired LAN (Local Area Network). This will enable all computers on that network to have continuous high speed wireless Internet Access at a fraction of the cost of having wired Internet service (such as a T1 line) brought to their office. Alternatively, a less expensive Wireless LAN card could be installed in a PC to provide the same wireless connectivity to a single computer, or a wired local network. An antenna is required to be installed on the roof of the subscriber's building so that it has line-of-site to the ISP head-end antennas located on the radio tower. All of the necessary equipment and antennas are available from YDI. Distances over 15 miles from the wireless head-end are possible if line-of-site between the subscriber antenna and the base antenna can be achieved. These antennas will be installed on the WFAX (1220 AM) radio tower located in the center of the city of Falls Church. One of the key features of YDI's wireless Internet access service is that it is high speed in both directions. Unlike Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) or Internet access on the proposed new phone company ASDL data services, files and emails are sent to Internet at the same speed as information down loaded from the Internet. For example, a 500 Kb file attached to an email would take about 3 minutes to send using dial-phone services. Using the high speed wireless Internet Access, this same file will only take a few seconds.