<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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WiFi is becoming a real mess, especially in crowded areas. The overlapping<br>
channels and mass-marketing is making things almost unusable in some places.<br>
My local cable company is now offering to set up WiFi for customers, touting it<br>
as an "alternative" to wired connections, which it really isn't.<br>
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The plus side is that almost anywhere I go I can find an open system that I can<br>
connect to.<br>
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But for anything beyond very light usage it's not practical, certainly not for<br>
reliable video.<br>
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I know it works for some folks, but I think those cases are exceptions, or<br>
happen in very rural areas.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>That's pretty much what I was getting at. And even if it works now, there's nothing preventing someone from setting up another WiFi network next door and causing just enough interference to mess up your video streams. It's great for internet access and such, but for sending 20Mbps HD video streams where packet loss is not acceptable, not so much. And if you have more than one such stream to send....... </div>
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