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This article demonstrates that a technology known as white space internet may soon arrive in the real world: Extending WiFi to one mile, thanks to empty TV channels Guerra is part of a Rice team led by professors Edward Knightly, Robert Stein, Lin Zhong, and William Reed that last year won a $1.8 million grant […]
With Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Canada and the United States planning to impose monthly bandwidth caps on us, and with extra fees being planned for people who exceed those caps (e.g. $1 per gigabyte), it brings up a great question – how much does it really cost to provide Internet access? We can get […]
Jonathan and I set out to take on some basics, based on some Listener Mail we received. On Monday, we started with a question from Mark, who wanted to know more about the different standards of wireless networking. Frankly, it can be a little confusing, but WiFi comes in several different flavors. Each of them is a little different…
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