Correcting the FCC’s 6 GHz Blunder
A new economic report by Raul Katz for WifiForward appears to inadvertently make a case for switching from Wi-Fi to Ethernet for better performance and a resulting boost to the…
Untangling Contradictions in Spectrum Policy
the FCC should ignore the pleas of self-appointed Wi-Fi advocates who don’t have the best interests of Wi-Fi users at heart
Dubious Arguments for 7 GHz Wi-Fi
A number of recent studies claim that Wi-Fi is on the verge of collapse – or radical slowdown – unless the FCC assigns the 7 GHz band to unlicensed use:…
Spectrum Policy is Too Politicized
Spectrum policy needs to be guided by the realities of network engineering rather than the desires of network incumbents to protect legacy business models from competition from wireless upstarts. Spectrum policy need not be a team sport.
Effective and Efficient Wireless Networks
Many government systems can be replaced by modern upgrades with zero incremental spectrum footprint above the commercial and private systems on which the highly productive civilian sector depends. Look at FirstNet.
Shane Tews on Filling the Spectrum Pipeline
Transferring spectrum from old to new users have proven to be much speedier and easier than imagined by PCAST and similar plans of 10 – 15 years ago. Getting governments and government agencies to cooperate is the harder problem.
Comparing Wi-Fi 6E Gateways: Netgear vs. Asus
In the last post we shared some preliminary impressions of Wi-Fi 6E vs. Wi-Fi 6. 6E is identical to 6 except that 6E uses the 6GHz frequency band while 6…
Multi-Gigabit SOHO Networks are Here
The era of multi-gigabit networks is here for residential and SOHO users. Wi-Fi 6 is in the indirect enabler.
How We Share Spectrum
Barring the advent of some new technology that allows you and your neighbors to use the same band at the same time with absolutely no interference, this is all there is. We will have have such a technology someday, but we quite have it yet.
Resolving the 6 GHz Conundrum
I’m proposing that the FCC releases 480 MHz of bandwidth in the 6 GHz band for a pilot project. The terms of the pilot are as specified, three high speed, indivisible 160 MHz channels supported by ongoing work on inter-access point coordination.