In my opinion, the biggest threat to 802.11 usage is not Sirius, but rather the issue of RF Lighting, which has been looming for some time. At the 2002 Chicago WISPCon last week, I met someone who had tried to deploy a Part 15 system (they weren't using 802.11) in proximity to an RF lighting system. The Part 15 system could not operate at all, and this was chilling because the system in question was a Frequency Hopping (FH) system, which is much more robust than Direct Sequence (used in 802.11b). If the FH system couldn't work around an RF lighting system, DS systems haven't a prayer. For a bit of background, see http://www.strohpub.com/0701feat.htm.
I'm a bit conflicted about this... as a member of the Management species, in genus Corporate Americanus, I have experience with this issue. Filters Block 'Sinful Six'. Companies are increasingly adding filters to prevent workers from wasting time surfing the Web, and filtering companies are increasing their marketing efforts. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
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I'm going to keep on this one... please let me know what any of the rest of you hear about this issue. Threat to Wi-Fi [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
8:25:30 AM
