> smart wifi is not wifi at all. it's licensed 5.2GHz (not wimax either, btw)
> using motorola canopy equipment.
So that means the "wifi" there is entirely a misnomer? I recall that
wifi used to mean 802.11a/b/g technology (for which the Wifi alliance
test compatibility). Doesn't SMART also use other technologies for
their wireless services (such as GPRS/EDGE) which they collectively
bill as "Smart WIFI"?
Not really. The GPRS/EDGE service is PLDT WeRoam.
"Smart Wifi" and PLDT myDSL/W is strictly the ex-Meridian service.
> the canopy CPE is a roughly pringles-sized sector antenna. you bolt it onto
> a pole or tube. it has a single Ethernet port. it also gets power through
> the ethernet port, via a standard wall brick and lowbrow "power injector."
> so there's no RF cable anywhere.
Yeah I've seen this stuff about a year ago (read something about it
that Motorola basically went for this rather than doing products for
the ISM band) ... it seems to be powered by an 802.3af injector.
"802.3af injector" sounds so glamorous. On the computer side there is an RJ-45 dongle with a mini-DIN plug on it. The cable from the CPE goes into one side of the dongle, and the dongle has an RJ-45 (male) cable on it which goes to your computer. You plug a wall brick's output into the mini-DIN.
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