Sorry, a bit late on the reply on this one... With beamforming antennas, you might be surprised what it can accomplish in-room even at knee level. I like your idea. 60GHz bounces off of walls and other objects very well.
-Hal On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 12:42 PM Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> wrote: > Yes, that sounds about right. > > > > Taking a closer look at the properties of 802.11ad, maybe they need to > make a “thin” device for each room with Ethernet. > > > > Something like an in wall (1Gang) unit that has POE from the central > location, a GigE Ethernet port and a thin 6’ flat cable with a small 60GHz > array at the end that sticks on the wall. > > > > Then you could get that antenna up higher for LOS in the room without > using a ceiling AP? > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Harold Bledsoe > *Sent:* Saturday, November 12, 2016 10:03 AM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 802.11ad Deployment in a House > > > > I think the idea is that 11ad will be opportunistic offload. For > enterprise it makes a lot of sense because you have dense users and ceiling > mounted APs. For home it is a little more challenging because you would > need one in each room that you want to "offload" to 60GHz. > > > > The applications where 60ghz makes sense is where you would think > seriously about using a wire (where you need high bandwidth, low latency - > basically a wire experience). Video streaming, gaming, that sort of stuff > would be the low-hanging fruit. > > > > -Hal > > > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 8:06 AM Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote: > > On 11/12/16 7:04 AM, Bill Prince wrote: > > I would think that 60 GHz "might" be useful if the AP and a UHD TV were > > in the same room, and your 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels were all trash > > because of close proximity of neighbors. > > > > But overall, I think it would be more trouble than most consumers can > > deal with. > > > I've been using a 60GHz HDMI bridge for several years between the AV > gear and the projector. Works great unless the cat sits on it because > it's warm. > > ~Seth > >
