Bandwidth Aggregation and Conglomeration

I was reading todays (Monday Jan 16 Pg C6) New York Times and noticed an article on "Sharing Broadband to Increase Speed". Two companies with two different approaches.

their contrivance at your house, get the neighbors to do the same, and you all get to share the aggregate bandwidth of the entire neighborhood via wireless. Not a bad idea, if it works.

As always, I'm sceptical. Neither company mentions that only the incoming bandwidth is aggregagated, not the outgoing. WiBoost uses

5.8GHz which should not cause interference problems with existing 2.4GHz wireless LAN's or store and forward delays. I can't decode what Mushroom Networks is doing. WiBoost expects users to pay $300 each for their technology, when the users can get about a years DSL service for a 2nd DSL line for the same price, or several years service at higher speeds, for much less. I dunno. Still, methinks it's worth a look. read more and respond »

Posted 5 years ago by Jeff Liebermann in Wireless Networking

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