[TriLUG] On the subject of Google WiFi

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-08-25 at 15:17 -0400, Brian via TriLUG wrote:
>>   Sensationalism.  Nothing to do with 802.11a/b/g/n and everything to
>> do
>> with high-frequency radio waves.  Wi-fi is but one source of radio
>> waves
>> in the unregulated 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands.  I strongly doubt that
>> any
>> off-the-shelf wi-fi equipment can be used to do RF imaging.  (Though
>> with the advance of things like SDR, I'm prepared to be wrong)
>
> Still, it makes you wonder what the equipment they put up will be
> capable of.  I would expect that a wide area wifi will operate on a
> different spectrum than 802.11a/b/g/n.  We also know that certain govt
> agencies, who have worked in collusion with networking companies would
> LOVE to have this capability in place, 4th amendment be damned.  Some
> dark money being funneled into the project would certainly be
> attractive to a company in terms of investment risk offset.
>
> I am currently studying to get my HAM radio license and one of the
> statements I read is that simply putting up an antenna is often times
> enough to cause a neighbor to believe that they are receiving
> interference from your operation.  (The evil side of me thinks it would
> be funny to place a bunch of antennas, even dummy ones, pointed at the
> neighbor's house) just to see what sort of reaction you get.  Imagine
> the psychological effect of having Google antennas up all over the
> place.
>
> WRT John's comment about M$, I have to wonder what the Xbox one is
> constantly doing with the massive amount of network traffic it
> generates.....

      Easier to put your Xbox in a separate wired vlan than doing the
same in wireless.

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