Can 60ghz even penetrate a building though? Unless every building is going to have radio towers on their roofs.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Can 60ghz even penetrate a building though? Unless every building is going to have radio towers on their roofs.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
That is just one example of wireless last-mile tech that is currently being deployed. It runs as a mesh network to provide high-speed from distribution nodes, and then tech like 802.11 ax provides the endpoint connectivity.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
So think: fiber infrastructure serves as the backbone, which provides multi-gigabit bandwidth to 60GHZ mesh networks/disti nodes (could be for an office complex, community, condo building, office tower... whatever) that provide endpoint connectivity via Wifi 6/6e.
Facebook's Terragraph has a good visualization of it about halfway down the page: https://terragraph.com/
The network tech is now being rolled out. There are some big announcements coming from networking companies I am working with in September that will show off consumer-level tech that takes advantage of the above.
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What's the latency like?
Nope. APs and the like are being rolled out by vendors in Q4 2020/Q1 2021. I can't see how it will take 15+ years to deploy what is increasingly mature tech.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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That sounds awesome
I think for anyone looking for a solution in Calgary in 2020, they should probably not worry about any technology that's not already available in Calgary in 2020.
There's some cool connectivity tech coming down the pipe, but regardless of it taking 6 months, 6 years, or longer, it's simply not available today.
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I mean, obviously. All I'm saying is that having all of AB FTTH by 2025 seems like an expensive and fruitless investment given tech that is currently available and available within the next 6-12 months.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
They promised us WiMax 15 years ago.
Just saying... last mile wireless has been around forever. Hell we use it at the office in Calgary and India, had the India circuit installed in '09. It's temperamental and susceptible to issues ranging from weather to sunspots.
I dunno how wifi 6 plays into this as last mile, as it's pretty short range.
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Not to mention even if 60ghz can push ~2gbps (estimate of its real world throughput) that isn't very much if you are connecting an entire block of houses, especially medium density ones. A pair of townhouse and some houses in a block and you've got 20+ nodes to share that bandwidth. Years ago Shaw internet was trash because every evening it would grind to a halt as your neighbor node got saturated. It's just gonna be that all over again unless they deploy a ton of antennas which just means more expensive hardware and higher consumer prices.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Wired will always be more reliable, regardless of tech one would think. I got a sweet Cisco 3800 Wireless-AC access point at home, and my home network goes temperamental every time my microwave runs, and that's with an enterprise grade AP with a bunch of built-in capabilities to avoid interference and such.
These comments sound very similar to conversations re: electric cars as recent as a few years ago.
Maybe I have an optimistic view given my exposure to the tech/companies behind it. I suppose we'll see.
I remember a few years ago, installed a WAP at a client site, about to leave and the wireless dropped, went hmm. Checked everything out, decided it was a one off, packed up then it dropped again, tested tested tested, checked the controller, everything looked fine. Went into the room where the WAP was installed just as an elevator went by, found out that room backed onto the elevator shaft and caused so much interference that it killed the wireless every time it went up or down, it wasn't a small room eitherThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Telus tech no showed me today. Was supposed to be here between 9am and 11am. Didn't get a phone call from the tech but I did get one from Telus right at 11am. They wanted to see if the tech showed up or called. I told them I got nothing. Told him it wasn't a huge deal but I can't just sit around here waiting for no one to show.
Edit: He showed. All good. Came all the way from Edmonton.
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And your FTTH, fast up and down? Ping times?This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I have had FTTH for about 5 years now. Great service. I had the 150/150 for a long time. I always had 8 ping, 175 down, 150 up.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I wanted the 750 service but the modem I had needed to be replaced. He replaced it and now I get 7 ping, 600 down, 400 up. Full 750 if I go wired. Pretty sweet!!
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Your ping times look really slow...I get 2ms maximum, usually 1.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I agree, they should be reporting 0-1ms.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteNever, ever seen it below 5.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Edit: Just ran another speedtest using the Killer Wifi app on my computer and got 6 ping and 1 jitter.
6 is the lowest I've ever gotten.
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Probably b/c wireless. Hardwired helps reduce the pingThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote