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Old March 18th 19, 03:15 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jonathan N. Little[_2_]
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Having really world experience with 5GHz wireless Internet can confirm
that my 5-12 mbps connection could suddenly drop to 0 to 100 kbsp randomly.


are you talking about wifi or a wireless isp?


Wireless ISP. Fixed Wireless Internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_wireless

As per Wiki 4 basic frequencies: (900 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz).
I had the highest 5 Ghz. Must be line of sight and things like leaves
and rain can interfere.


5ghz is much too low for quality wireless internet, so it's not
surprising you had problems.

that doesn't mean *all* wireless is flawed.

most wisps use 30 ghz and higher, offering up to gigabit speeds,
without wires and with high reliability.


Higher the frequency the shorter the range and the less penetrating the
signal is. Yes, it can carries more data if it is not resending packets
due to interference. May not be an issue in Kansas but if you live in
any area with terrain...


Being an extremely lucky rural US resident my rural electric coop
company decided to pull this area out of 3-world-status and also give a
Verizon the middle-finger-salute, (like they're building out any FIOS
now), and I have now had a FTTP connection for the last few days. There
is NO comparison for connection stability. Even when I had slow DSL the
connection was more stable than this wireless. The only advantage to
wireless is not have to route wires.


that is a significant advantage, especially when it doesn't impact
bandwidth.


I'll take the "inconvenience" of the reliability and quality of signal
over what I had with wireless. Even the DSL, although slower, had less
variance. And with fiber impervious to solar flares, weather, EMP. And
were are not even venturing into security. Hard to snoop if it requires
a physical connection.


BTW as part of the deal for deregulation 25 years ago the telcos
*promised* us a fiber-optic "Information Superhighway" in less than 10
years...


fibre is available in a lot of places, but with gigabit lte now and 5g
soon, along with gigabit wisps, there's little need for that anymore.


BS. Verizon, the biggest player in the bunch, has been marketing up the
ying-yang but has not built out any more fiber in over a decade. Verizon
here was trying desperately to kill copper and drive folks from DSL.
Jacking up the price and lowering the speeds... They want to move over
everyone for regulated copper to unregulated wireless where the big
bucks are. Then all the fantasy over 5G cell service, cannot get a
reliable voice service around here. Where 4G LTE requires towers a few
miles apart how likely are rural folks going to get 5G where antennas
must be *feet* apart? Not going to happen here, and rural here in VA is
not like rural in flyover-country.

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