C'mon Hal.. that is a bit cruel.... Most of our parents (mine included) cannot move fast enough to deal with 'gigabit'...
This is kind of like .... When they put Nick Hogan behind the wheels of a NAS Car ! LOL! . Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] > From: "Harold Bledsoe" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 8:33:12 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 5G > I wonder what the recognition is of "gigabit" now? I usually test things like > this on my parents. :-) > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:38 PM Ken Hohhof < [email protected] > wrote: >> The average consumer has no clue what any of the following terms mean, >> despite >> spending a lot of money on them: >> WiFi, 4G, 5G, LTE, modem, router, satellite, server >> And the industry is happy to keep them stupid, for example defining >> “unlimited” >> as “throttled after 22 GB”. The latest I saw is Qualcomm wanting people to >> think their phones will soon have gigabit download speeds. Mobile carriers of >> course don’t sell speed plans, they sell data plans, and manufacturers like >> Qualcomm conflate sector capacity with end user speed. As well as neglecting >> to >> explain that all that unlicensed spectrum will only be used for urban small >> cells, not the celltower 5 miles from your house in the country. >> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/02/qualcomms-new-lte-modem-will-make-gigabit-download-speeds-easier-to-hit/ >> From: Af [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Gino Villarini >> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 12:03 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 5G >> Ouch… >> From: Af < [email protected] > on behalf of Stefan Englhardt < >> [email protected] >> > >> Reply-To: " [email protected] " < [email protected] > >> Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 1:49 PM >> To: " [email protected] " < [email protected] > >> Subject: [AFMUG] 5G >> Now the first wifi is called 5G. And who is the marketing winner: mimosa. >> But of course air-„fiber“ is not bad, too. >> Both companies should move some sales guys to the engineering staff to make >> their >> Ptmp wifi gear gps work before claiming the next big thing. >> Gino Villarini >> President >> Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968
