Well, maybe 60GHz room to room might make a decent extender as well ala UBNT Amplifi HD.
I think UBNT should make an Amplifi HD HD with 802.11ad and ac, lol! From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Harold Bledsoe Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 7:46 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 802.11ad Deployment in a House 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<mailto: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<mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com>] On Behalf Of Harold Bledsoe Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 10:03 AM To: af@afmug.com<mailto: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<mailto: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
