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> mmWave I thought the problem was that houses and most buildings outside of North America have solid internal walls which blocks or attenuates mmWave signal s
by DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
> mmWave
I thought the problem was that houses and most buildings outside of North America have solid internal walls which blocks or attenuates mmWave signal strength to such a degree it's practically worthless for anything besides Wi-Gig between consumer appliances within a few feet of each other?
- rsynnott 6y agoI mean, that's one problem, but even with the most radio-transparent walls available, you're looking at something with a very limited range, really only suitable for deployment in dense urban areas. And dense urban areas normally have decent fixed-line broadband. And pretty good LTE. One edge-case application _might_ be stadiums, large train stations etc. But in practice these days these can often be covered quite adequately with small LTE nodes. And that will improve with 5G, even without mmWave.