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Finnish startup has a solution to provide internet anywhere
- iwan_geroy 10y agoThe info is lacking of tech details, but anyway such idea is always great
- walter_bishop 10y agoGiven the nature of shortwave propagation, I would suspect the delivered service will be less than promised. According to this document it utilizes a form of peer-to-peer cell networking over shortwave. I would suspect that with the increase of base stations there would be lots of contention for usable bandwidth. As someone once put it, you canna change the laws of physics. "While connected to the existing infrastructure, the radio switches to base station mode for offering INDEPENDENT communication to other users in GLOBAL network as well" http://hfindustry.com/meetings_presentations/presentation_materials/2015_sept_hfia/presentations/8-KNL_HFIA-2015SEPT.pdf http://hfindustry.com/meetings_presentations/presentation_ma... btw: Whatever happened to that low earth orbit satellite system that was going to provide Internet anywhere on the planet.
- smkellat 10y agoAfter reading that, it seems like it is going to be a low-throughput network. There's only so much space you can occupy with a signal between those band markers without conflicting with other spectrum users. Even if you multiplexed a couple conventional signals you'll still wind up below EDGE-type throughput.
- smkellat 10y agoThe science of this had better be a phenomenal breakthrough. By most conventional means, a 300 baud modem is the most you can manage over an HF link consistently. The shortwave spectrum isn't that big so there will be throughput bottlenecks.