[TriLUG] Google Fiber Triangle Build out

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Bryant via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> And I suspect not all techies would object to wireless, even if they preferred a fiber link. Speaking for myself, I prefer fiber (and currently have it, in fact) but I would take a gigabit wireless link over your average DSL or DOCSIS link.
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> Has Google said what they’re looking at using for the wireless links? Because when I first read about this a week or two ago, I was picturing something more akin to a point-to-point link - stuff like the Ubiquiti Nanobeam type hardware - rather than just trying to blanket a neighborhood in wifi. Wireless is always going to be more sensitive than a cable in the ground, but it doesn’t have to be as unreliable as omnidirectional 802.11.
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      I read about that early this month on articles like
http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-urgently-wants-to-test-superfast-wireless-broadband-in-24-us-cities/

> Stephen
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>> On Aug 25, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Brian Henning via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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>>> I wonder if Google realizes that the vast majority of their potential customers for a 1GB service are techies
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>> I suspect Google realizes that the "vast majority" of their potential customers are, in fact, /not/ techies.  It doesn't take a techie to think "oo, that's more gigglebits, it must be better!" without understanding /at all/ the inherent limitations of wireless.  Shoot, there are a lot of respectable(?) techies who don't really understand the limitations of wireless.
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>> -B
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