Steve Stroh
Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland.
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Steve Stroh
Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland.
Posted by Steve Stroh on August 20, 2002 at 11:44 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The "opposing sides" are Personal Telco, a not-for-profit community wireless network, and T-Mobile Wireless Broadband which is partnered with Starbucks to provide Wireless Internet Access inside all company-owned Starbucks stores. Personal Telco and T-Mobile are both using "Wi-Fi" (802.11b) systems to service their respective users - using the same 802.11b channel.
Personal Telco wants to provide Wireless Internet Access to users in the entire square. Starbucks wants to provide service to users on its premises. Personal Telco claims that the presence of the Starbucks system, on the same channel and in the same area, is causing interference and degraded performance to its system.
Even if true, such "interference" is a non-issue. Personal Telco has absolutely no "claim" to its use of an 802.11b channel. The equipment that Personal Telco uses has a sticker on it or in its accompanying documentation that states in part "This device must accept interference, even when such interference causes undesireable operation." Game, set, match; Personal Telco has no recourse - nor does Starbucks / T-Mobile. But, Starbucks is only interested in providing wireless services to customers on its premises. Given the close proximinty between the Starbucks wireless access point and the users of same, it's unlikely that the Personal Telco system is causing any signfiicatnt degradation.
Get used to stuff like this, folks. It will happen a lot, and those involved in such "clashes" are simply going to have to learn to deal with such situations as they occur. If cooperation cannot be achieved, then technical fixes will be required (and are available). Unfortunately, it seems much easier to most people to resort to legislative, legal, or pressure tactics to resolve what is purely a technical issue.
Steve Stroh
Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland.
Posted by Steve Stroh on August 20, 2002 at 11:44 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Steve Stroh
Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland.
Posted by Steve Stroh on August 20, 2002 at 11:44 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Steve Stroh
Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland.
Posted by Steve Stroh on August 20, 2002 at 11:44 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Steve Stroh
Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland.
Posted by Steve Stroh on August 16, 2002 at 23:29 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Steve Stroh
Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland.
Posted by Steve Stroh on August 16, 2002 at 11:29 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thanks for the tip to Kurt Mackie of Broadband Wireless Online, linked at left.
Steve Stroh
Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland.
Posted by Steve Stroh on August 16, 2002 at 11:29 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Steve Stroh
Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland.
Posted by Steve Stroh on August 16, 2002 at 11:29 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Steve Stroh
Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland.
Posted by Steve Stroh on August 06, 2002 at 12:10 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Steve Stroh
Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland.
Posted by Steve Stroh on August 06, 2002 at 12:10 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
By mid-1997, I was writing professionally about Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) as a monthly columnist in Boardwatch Magazine.
In 2000, I began writing about BWIA full time in my own blogs, for numerous other publications, and my own subscription newsletter.
From 2008 - 2015, I took a hiatus from writing about BWIA, but my interest in BWIA did not wane. From 2016 - 2020 I worked to resume writing full time.