Re: [WISPA] 900MHz band

2018-06-21 Thread GarrettShankle
That sounds like complete malarkey to me. I’m sure cambium would like to hear about that as I’m happily running all my 450i sectors in some areas at 10 or 20mhz. I was once told by an well-schooled rf engineer that 900mhz required frequency hopping to be legal. If your power is

Re: [WISPA] Looking for opinions on a proposal for PTMP in 6Ghz Part 101 spectrum

2017-06-05 Thread garrettshankle
It's not that I don't want the band used by my competitors, I just want it to remain a useful spectrum for what its best at: long range PtP communications. Our competitors have access to the band the same way we do and that's a good thing. We absolutely need the part 101 bands to

Re: [WISPA] Looking for opinions on a proposal for PTMP in 6Ghz Part 101 spectrum

2017-06-04 Thread garrettshankle
I think the 6Ghz band need to stay for PtP links only. As for band sharing I think that the need for reliable wireless back-haul far outweighs any benefit of moving the band completely to part 15. Use of this band for PtMP applications should not be permitted and all installations should

Re: [WISPA] New NEC rule it may hurt WISPs

2017-05-12 Thread garrettshankle
Based on that interpretation Dish and Dierct-tv would not be completely exempt as they use power over Coax for some of their technology. Hughesnet and Exeede would certainly be affected as well. That would completely destroy their cheap contractor business model. This is honestly

Re: [WISPA] New NEC rule it may hurt WISPs

2017-05-12 Thread garrettshankle
Considering V.A. doesn't have a separate certification for low voltage, I certainly hope we're excluded. It would be difficult to get all of our technicians though a 3 year apprenticeship as required by law for a full certification. -Original Message- From: "Matt Hoppes"

Re: [WISPA] Query to the group

2017-05-12 Thread garrettshankle
IIRC the mac address randomizing code was[ half-baked and not random enough ]( https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/10/mac_address_randomization/ ) to be anonymous. Android more or less gave up on the feature and it's hardly implemented at all. But either way it's not a brand issue it's

Re: [WISPA] Query to the group

2017-05-11 Thread garrettshankle
Jokes aside: That sounds too "gray area" for my liking personally. While it's all "technically" legal but still pushes some ethical issues with potential collection of MAC addresses from unwitting parties. Not that Lowe's and Target have any trouble with similar techniques.