----- Original Message ----- From: "George Rogato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] School WiFi / Wireless info ?
> Dawn DiPietro wrote: > > Mike, > > > > If you think you are under the radar you are sorely mistaken. You > > admitted on a public list that gear you use is not certified. > > > > Regards, > > Dawn DiPietro > > Yeah, but your over the limit! :) > > Heck why go after a 3000 little guys when you can go after one big guy. > They've been selling unlicensed amplifiers and uncertified systems for > as long as I can remember. Heck, talk about posting a message on this > list, what about having a full blown catalog online advertizing US sales > with prices next to them? > > I believe they should have spent the 3 or 4 g's to get the systems they > sell certified before they sold them. > > They make millions easily selling uncertified gear and it's not a secret. Ohh, I feel another rant coming on.. .George, you better take a chill pill :) While this is a peripheral issue with "certification", I have made suggestions to the FCC about certification of individual components. I kinda doubt it's going to happen. At least not soon, regulators are notorious for not liking change, since it makes things less tidy for them. I buy computer components... motherboad, processors, video cards, and so on... And tires, and car parts, and actually quite a few other things that have technical performance reviews by people who have tested things. I WISH that manufacturers could certify components, because then we'd have published real-wolrd performance graphs and charts to use for comparison when we buy things. Just "certified" really isn't "good enough" in my view. I recall that a good number of years ago, there was a hack for a linksys AP that turned up the power. Someone used an SA on it and found that when you did it, the output became incredibly dirty. Certified or not, I would like to know that what I buy is "clean" rf-wise. Low OOB emissions. Minimal out of channel emissions, selective recievers that reject adjacent channel noise. Really comparable specs for dealing with noise and S/N ratios, etc. I really dislike not knowing those things about what I buy. And, due to the way certification works, certification has almost no meaning when it comes to those important RF characteristics. Early on in my investigating the wireless business, lots of people were testing new products and publishing the results. I dont' see ANY of that going on anymore. Any suggestions to motivate manufacturers? -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
