Marlon:
I confess that my jaw dropped too, especially that the weight issue
came out better for the wired system, but in fairness, read the story
a bit more closely.
It's not just Internet access that the wireless system was handling -
it was also the seatback video, etc.
Given that, i
nt: Monday, January 29, 2007 10:15 AM
To: wireless@wispa.org
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Boeing Fails to Learn from WISPs
If you've ever been to Las Vegas, check out their monorail sometime and
I think you'll see the same problem. AP'S and Amplifiers every 300'
along the track, obvio
PA] Boeing Fails to Learn from WISPs
Boeing is dropping it's plans to offer wireless access on the new 787
Dreamliner. It will be using a WIRED network instead.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/301086_boeing25.html
The reasons given were:
1. Reducing the aircraft weight.
2
If you've ever been to Las Vegas, check out their monorail sometime and
I think you'll see the same problem. AP'S and Amplifiers every 300'
along the track, obviously the person(s) spec'ing it out, had no prior
experience tis' a sad, sad story
Mike-
Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
200 lb
From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List"
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Boeing Fails to Learn from WISPs
200 lbs of aps and antennas How the hell is THAT possible?
I'll bet all of my gear weighs
for Boing!
marlon
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From: "Jack Unger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: [WISPA] Boeing Fails to Learn from WISPs
Boeing is dropping it's plans to offer wireless access on the new 787
Dreamliner. I
My thinking is that Boeing engineers may have simply failed to learn a
lesson that some WISPs have known for years. Any knowledgeable WISP
could have told Boeing that putting two dozen access points inside an
airplane cabin would create so much self-interference that the system
would never
An antenna in every row of seats??!!
~fred
On 1/27/07, Jack Unger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Boeing is dropping it's plans to offer wireless access on the new 787
Dreamliner. It will be using a WIRED network instead.
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Boeing is dropping it's plans to offer wireless access on the new 787
Dreamliner. It will be using a WIRED network instead.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/301086_boeing25.html
The reasons given were:
1. Reducing the aircraft weight.
2. Difficulty in getting regulatory approval in
