"Enrique LaRoche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 3/5/03 at 4:56 PM wrote: >So I am still wondering if I setup my off the shelf Linksys bridge with my >hyperlink technology 15 dbi Yagis and do it for less than $400.00 will The >FCC come and Shut me down. And if I Purchase a vendors Certified link will >the extra $1900 prevent the FCC from yanking it? >Apples to Apples same two points to bridge?
It's not a question of whether the FCC would have the *right* to do this, which is sort of what you're asking. They would. Sounds pretty clear. But *would* the FCC do this? Extremely unlikely unless someone specifically turned you in and make a stink. A big stink. An DHS-style stink. There is stil, years out, only a single letter requesting action (not an enforcement action) in which the FCC expressed any opinion whatsoever on trying to deal with interfering uses of a wireless network and other licensed users. (That was the April 2001 letter to Darwin Networks, no longer in existence, with a dispute with some hams.) You'd think with the number of cantennas and other network modifications that if the FCC were very interested in shutting down networks, they could just drive to some streets or search on the Net. They're obviously not. For point-to-point applications, it's unclear that at a high-enough (legal!) gain how anyone would even ever know you were even in existence. The "certified link" means the FCC wouldn't yank it if it were unmodified and in compliance with the stuff filed and certified by them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Fleishman, Unsolicited Pundit: read my work at http://glennf.com check out my new book, The Wireless Networking Starter Kit, a guide to Wi-Fi at home, office, and roaming : <http://wireless-starter-kit.com> freelance reporter for The New York Times, Macworld, InfoWorld, et al. read all the wireless networking news at <http://wi-fi.weblogger.com/> Macintosh columnist, The Seattle Times http://seattletimes.com/ptech/ -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
