FTC action against Harley-Davidson and Westinghouse for limiting right to repair
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FTC action against Harley-Davidson and Westinghouse for limiting right to repair
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5G is typically deployed in CBRS bands - i.e. 3.5 GHz. This isn't mmWave. Will have meaningfully higher coverage areas than WiFi (but mostly because WiFi is power-limited, not to do with frequency).
It works over a regular IPSec tunnel I believe.
They're fundraising for a Sotheby's auction, so I think they basically want to raise as much as they can to be able to win the auction. Apparently they were told that it would likely sell for ~$40m, with bidding starting at $20m.
Crypto bid to buy US constitution print raises millions
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Silicon Valley stirs over proposal to end popular QSBS tax break
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Ohtipi: OTP Auto Fill in Chrome and Firefox
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The Internet Loses a Champion with the Passing of Sherwin Siy
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Sci-Hub has received 4.7 BTC in donations in the last year
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Teardown of a Cel-Fi Go X Cell Signal Booster
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Spare Parts, Fix-It-Yourself Guides Hit the Market
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Nixing the Fix: An FTC Report to Congress on Repair Restrictions [pdf]
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If anyone is considering T-Mobile Home 5G Internet, you can dramatically improve your connection speeds by getting the devices to connect on the 5G n41 band, where T-Mobile has much more spectrum. Unfortunately n41 is 2500 MHz, which means it's readily absorbed by building materials. Hooking up external antennas to the hotspot requires a bit of playing with the device [1], but can be a big help.
https://www.waveform.com/a/b/guides/hotspots/t-mobile-5g-gat...
The Next Economy of Ideas (2000)
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I run https://www.waveform.com and we help a lot of folks like yourself get better signal. It's not really worth messing around with cheap options - your productivity is on the line and it's worth spending a little for great connectivity.
With that in mind, the best option is a Pepwave MAX HD2 Dual SIM. Then put a Visible SIM from Verizon in one slot and a Calyx SIM (T-Mobile) in the other, or sign up for the AT&T iPad plan. Either use whip antennas or ideally use a roof-mount 4x4 MIMO antenna to get the best signal.
Using Pepwave's VPN you can run WAN smoothing and/or bonding to make sure that your connection is rock solid.
Worth looking the LTE hacks facebook group, though they tend to use cheap gear, and I'd recommend using something beefier.
I am.
It seems I have it worse than almost anyone.
2.5 month old, 1 TB, M1 MBA:
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 46 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 5%
Data Units Read: 315,158,527 [161 TB]
Data Units Written: 303,071,863 [155 TB]
Host Read Commands: 1,331,719,025
Host Write Commands: 1,036,195,203
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 167
Power On Hours: 762
Unsafe Shutdowns: 7
Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act
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A lot of people seem to think that Starlink will compete with Comcast/Cox/Spectrum/etc in suburban areas. But it won't.
Starlink is great, and people are right to be excited about it as an option for signal in truly rural areas. But it simply won't have the capacity necessary to serve a meaningful number of users in any kind of semi-dense application.
Starlink is like a 4G/5G cellular network except there's no way to increase capacity in a specific area. That makes it great at covering areas with very low population density, but absolutely terrible for even medium-density zones.
If you're stuck in a suburban or exurban area with terrible options for broadband, your best option is likely a 4G or 5G router. There a number of different truly unlimited plans out there (e.g. Calyx). If signal isn't good enough indoors, you can purchase outdoor MIMO antennas to get better results.
Starlink is great if you're in area with very low population density. That's a lot of the US, but not a lot of the US population.
The reason the ISM bands look so "hot" or busy on a spectrum analyzer is exactly because they're a "free for all." It's a classic tragedy of the commons: everyone keeps "shouting" at max volume to be heard and there's no coordination between operators and users of different services.
Here's an example: in a typical apartment block, each resident runs their WiFi access point at full power. In any one apartment, there's a ton of interference from neighboring units. If everyone coordinated and reduced their WiFi power to just what was necessary to cover their unit, it would result in less interference and higher net data rates for everyone. But no one is incentivized to do take action unilaterally.
LTE and 5G networks are very careful planned to limit intracell interference and handover zones between towers. This central planning maximizes the efficiency of the network. It allows your cell phone to connect to a tower 10km away if you're in a rural area, and results in higher spectral efficiency for the overall network by increasing signal-to-noise ratios for all users.
With a more sensitive spectrum analyzer, you'll see that the cellular bands are actually extremely busy. In fact, macro networks are almost always at capacity during peak usage. However, all the devices are "speaking" at the lowest volume necessary to be heard.
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