I may be unwashed, but I am not a ghast.
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 7:08 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 5G That's new... Now you are a high member of caste system... Unwashed masses? Too funny... Not haha funny... On Feb 21, 2017 1:38 PM, "Bill Prince" <part15...@gmail.com <mailto:part15...@gmail.com> > wrote: We are. But we are also separate and distinct from the unwashed masses. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 2/21/2017 12:35 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote: Aghast... Are we not consumers.? On Feb 21, 2017 11:38 AM, "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com <mailto:af...@kwisp.com> > wrote: The average consumer has no clue what any of the following terms mean, despite spending a lot of money on them: WiFi, 4G, 5G, LTE, modem, router, satellite, server And the industry is happy to keep them stupid, for example defining “unlimited” as “throttled after 22 GB”. The latest I saw is Qualcomm wanting people to think their phones will soon have gigabit download speeds. Mobile carriers of course don’t sell speed plans, they sell data plans, and manufacturers like Qualcomm conflate sector capacity with end user speed. As well as neglecting to explain that all that unlicensed spectrum will only be used for urban small cells, not the celltower 5 miles from your house in the country. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/02/qualcomms-new-lte-modem-will-make-gigabit-download-speeds-easier-to-hit/ From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com> ] On Behalf Of Gino Villarini Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 12:03 PM To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 5G Ouch… From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com> > on behalf of Stefan Englhardt <s...@genias.net <mailto:s...@genias.net> > Reply-To: "af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> " <af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> > Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 1:49 PM To: "af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> " <af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> > Subject: [AFMUG] 5G Now the first wifi is called 5G. And who is the marketing winner: mimosa. But of course air-„fiber“ is not bad, too. Both companies should move some sales guys to the engineering staff to make their Ptmp wifi gear gps work before claiming the next big thing. Gino Villarini President Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968
