455 to 465 is where many are working
On Dec 15, 2015 6:58 PM, "Bill Prince" <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I talked some with a technician that came out to install the smartmeter on
> our house a month or two ago.
>
> We are in limbo. I didn't tell them they couldn't install it, but I told
> them it would have to lock out specific frequencies if they didn't want me
> to wrap it in a Faraday cage. He elected to defer the installation. We have
> been going around like this for 3 or 4 years, and they still haven't
> installed our smartmeter.
>
> No big deal. All of our neighbors still get their meters read by the old,
> manual method. Seems the meters are too far apart to actually work anyway.
> In the mean time, they just pollute the 900 MHz band.
>
> He told me that PG&E was switching over to ~~ 450 MHz (I don't know the
> exact frequencies) because they needed better range than they could get at
> 900 MHz. In fact, he said they were licensing whatever frequencies they are
> switching over to. I'll believe it when I see it.
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 12/15/2015 5:49 PM, George Skorup wrote:
>
>> Ouch. That's what I was worried about. Now ComEd is going to roll out
>> smart meters across their entire service area in about a year and I fear
>> we're going to have to abandon 900 altogether because of it. Guess we'll be
>> trying some TVWS, until they shit on that too.
>>
>> On 12/15/2015 7:33 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>>
>>> Had to go to 5 MHz channel to stay registered, 1X MIMO-A, about 2 Mbps
>>> aggregate throughput on linktests. That's useless.
>>>
>>> I can't say I'm all that surprised, the signals are bad and the
>>> interference is worse. But the only way to find out was to try it.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- From: George Skorup
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 7:25 PM
>>> To: af@afmug.com
>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 900 MHz 450i report
>>>
>>> So what did you get, about 10dB SNR and 5Mbps of throughput?
>>>
>>> On 12/15/2015 7:19 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>>>
>>>> We swapped out an FSK AP in a high interference area today. No magic,
>>>> works about the same.
>>>>
>>>> Too bad, even the installer liked the SM and antenna. Even the coax
>>>> boots are nice.
>>>>
>>>> Will probably work well for those of you who don't have -65 noise
>>>> floors.
>>>>
>>>> We are going to have to give up on 900 MHz at this location. This was
>>>> the last gasp.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
