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by matt-p 11mo ago
WiFi uses the above, for now.
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by matt-p 11mo ago
I don't know about other areas but any apartment buildings post like 1990s are just absolute junk when it comes to separation. Before then it was just concrete or structural brick and now somehow it's often 'fireproof magicbo
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by matt-p 11mo ago
"Mobile doesn't scale in cities" is the exact reason they need 6Ghz (because higher frequencies enable much higher density of cells, reducing terminals per cell). 6Ghz will penetrate buildings terribly, I agree, but it's
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by matt-p 11mo ago
50Mb is more than fine for iphone backups.
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by matt-p 11mo ago
There is arguably less? 6Ghz is considered 5945 to 6425, 5Ghz allows far more if you include outdoor and fixed wifi.
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by matt-p 11mo ago
It's a technical/commercial necessity to have exclusive use over the spectrum in a given area. If you don't believe me why doesn't every city in the world have a paid wifi network? With 5Ghz it should be faster than typi
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by matt-p 11mo ago
That is really cool, but sad to see it's only at around 15% penetration.
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by matt-p 11mo ago
Moving to 6Ghz will require a new router. Realistically it's even worse because it's not moving to 6Ghz it's adding 6Ghz. Now each AP has to have 3 radios, 2.4ghz for compatibility, 5ghz for compatibility while still maintain
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by matt-p 11mo ago
Sure obviously giving it to WiFi and then installing town wide free WiFi would be the absolute most efficient option but I'm trying to stay realistic.
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by matt-p 11mo ago
India has 15% fixed broadband penetration. So let's say you've got a town of 100K households. You can; A) give the richest 15K of them absolutely no faster WiFi whatsoever because 5GHZ will not be congested at all for them (so the
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by matt-p 11mo ago
I think you'll find downloading files to your phone from a NAS is like 0.01% type behaviour.
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by matt-p 11mo ago
We gave WiFi 800Mhz in the 5Ghz band and we said the same thing at the time 'this is the last we'll need'. That's 10x as much as in 2.4ghz and at a higher frequency. I remember a lot of people at the time getting really
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by matt-p 11mo ago
Given we know 5Ghz can give us like 600Mbps real world on 80Mhz channels, would a fixed line in India typically be above that speed? Is it all GPON these days or still DSL/WISP type stuff?
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by matt-p 11mo ago
It's not even that, it's just build apartment blocks out of real materials like concrete and brick not wood and plasterboard. I have lived in the centre of a city in a victorian apartment block and looking back it was a dream. Abo
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by matt-p 11mo ago
Hahaha.
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by matt-p 11mo ago
We said this about 5Ghz when that came out. I'm sorry to say it's not true, there's more than enough spectrum in 5Ghz if properly managed and co-ordinated. I would rather fix that first. Why is it we can run WiFi for thousand
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by matt-p 11mo ago
You say that but my TV, Games console, computer, smart lights bridge, printer etc all do. Having said that I'm still mad they removed it from the MacBook pro and that was like 14 years ago now so I feel you.
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by matt-p 11mo ago
But your home NAS should be on ethernet? Who would buy a NAS and then not wire it in?? The point here is that only devices like a TV, mobile, tablet or laptop should be on WiFi and it's pretty hard to notice the difference between say
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by matt-p 11mo ago
For better or worse mobile companies will probably make a more efficient use of the space in a country like India at a practical level. I can at least see why you might do this. I don't know anything really about India's telecoms
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by matt-p 11mo ago
There's still a load of non-DFS channels you could be using? At least in an apartment you can run an ethernet cable for the most important devices.
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by matt-p 11mo ago
It's interactive. Happy to take feedback/questions.
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by matt-p 11mo ago
For a particular (suicide related) site I know that it was 'made known' to resi-ISPs here and as far as I know everyone with existing capability to do so blocked it (though for some smaller ISPs just at the DNS level, so essential
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by matt-p 11mo ago
The state shouldn't intervene in suicide is quite a take. Maybe you consider it "Gubbbermenntt overreach" but I kind of consider suicide prevention as a reasonable function of state.
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by matt-p 11mo ago
Maybe this is very european of me but 250KM is outrageously far. Dublin to Belfast is like 130KM. If it says they're in Seville (in Spain) within <200KM they could also be in Portugal, Morocco, or Gibraltar. If it says you're i
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by matt-p 11mo ago
ASN is even worse, honestly. If I'm behind starlinks AS then I'm American? AWS, I'm also American? Level 3? American. Colt leased line in my office in Madrid, apparently I'm English.
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by matt-p 11mo ago
I honestly still cannot believe that a simple blogger needs to potentially comply with the regulations of some ~200 countries. What happens when the law of two countries conflicts? What if the UK say I need to verify everyone's age, bu
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by matt-p 11mo ago
Yeah, I mean thats what like ~$4.9/TB/Month including 4TB+ of internet transfer at a substrate level. So with say 10 servers on 8+2 parity you're looking at ~$6/TB/Month including >5TB of internet. Probably makes
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by matt-p 11mo ago
I'm a brit. There's more than an element of truth to this, we do not always dream big enough or take enough risk. We are efficient and frugal sometimes to a fault. However it's not the whole story, there are actually people w
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by matt-p 11mo ago
I mean on that site you also have clouvider who are cheaper $423.79/mo for 72TB including bandwidth, compute and two extra boot SSDs. I just searched by a minimum disk size of 12TB. Colo will be cheaper I'm sure but it's fund

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