baineschile
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join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | Why
Will we need Fiber/coax in the near future, when wireless can get these speeds? |
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KingofCola
join:2007-02-07
Greer, SC | I will drop all land line connections once we hit that king of speed. OTA for HDTV, LTE for phone and WiFi router. |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | reply to baineschile
Yes. There is only so much wireless spectrum available. Fiber/coax has much more bandwidth available. |
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tiger72
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join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
clubs:
 ·T-Mobile US
 ·RoadRunner Cable
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for competition. LTE has the same issue that wifi and existing cellular has - it's a very shared medium, meaning that the trial and theoretical speeds will rarely, if ever be seen in the real world.
Fiber is still the most stable, upgradeable connection right now.
As for what i'll be doing in 2011 - if they're offering 4g in the city i'll be living in, you bet i'll be consdering my wireless company as my primary data provider soon.
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"What makes us omniscient? Have we a record of omniscience? ...If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning."
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
| said by tiger72  :for competition. LTE has the same issue that wifi and existing cellular has - it's a very shared medium, meaning that the trial and theoretical speeds will rarely, if ever be seen in the real world. It is also much more secure in the "Last Mile" (ie: The connection between the User and the Tower [in this case]) since your connection can be monitored by listening to the radio transmission unlike fiber which where you have to monitor the transfer by "wire tapping" or at the router. |
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jmn1207
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join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
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said by Eat Me :Yes. There is only so much wireless spectrum available. Fiber/coax has much more bandwidth available. True, but perhaps it would eventually make for a great "last mile" alternative for hard to reach areas? |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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said by baineschile :Will we need Fiber/coax in the near future, when wireless can get these speeds? Never. The airwaves are like the entire world running on 1 piece of coax.
There are interests more powerful than you. Like 1/3 the frequency space is used by the DOD, another 1/3 for state/local govt (police/fire), 1/5 for radio astronomy (**** these scientists), another 1/5 for radiolocation (we won't use GPS or anything digital till the day its forced into our cold dead hands), and another 1/5 for ground to space satellite communications. None of these users will give up their ancient analog systems, or give up their licenses if they aren't using them. Cellular/consumer level frequencies are microscopic compared to the special interest users. Any attempt to remove these frequencies will result in a visit from the CIA or deposed from your appointment or DOD holding a press conference on how your a soviet spy attempting to undermine national security. |
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Smith6612
Premium
join:2008-02-01
united state
 ·Dish Network
 ·Verizon Online DSL
·FrontierNet Intern..
| reply to baineschile
Though wireless can achieve such speeds, nothing beats the reliability and stability of a wired connection, not to mention that wireless only has so much spectrum that you can use with it, and it is more prone to interference from other sources than say a fiber optic cable is. |
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