Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

[Mick]

On Thursday, 28 November 2019 08:50:07 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 09:28:59AM +0000, Mick wrote
>
> > The world is moving towards high speed wireless connectivity anyway,
> > so more and more devices will not need a physical switch port or
> > ethernet cables to gain access to the network.
>
>   "High speed wireless" is going to be a big disappointment.  Due to
> laws of physics, you need high frequencies for faster wireless speeds.
> But higher frequencies have a lot less penetrating power.  They might
> scream in a short range lab test, but in the real world, lower
> frequencies actually perform better.  See
> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/millimeter-wave-5g-wi
> ll-never-scale-beyond-dense-urban-areas-t-mobile-says/ for a demo.  This is
> about cellphone frequencies, but the same laws of physics apply.

Quite so.  This is why infrastructure providers are planning to use lamp 
posts, public buildings and the like.  In rural areas where no street lighting 
exists this becomes a problem.

However, many domestic WiFi routers come with dual WiFi SSIDs and separate 
VLANs to allow 3rd parties to use your WAP as a WiFi hot-spot, as long as they 
already have a user account with the same ISP, or are willing to register and 
pay exorbitant fees (at least in the UK) for a few hours usage.  

I can see a possibility for this hot-spot functionality extending to offer 
domestic 5G aerial repeaters, but in the country side with miles of 'no-spots' 
this is not going to offer much geographic cover anyway.

-- 
Regards,

Mick