Multi-Gigabit SOHO Networks are Here
America’s networking industry isn’t sitting on its laurels. Xfinity just added a 200 Mbps speed boost to its high-end plans. For perspective, 200 Mbps is more than the average total download speed in...
View ArticleComparing Wi-Fi 6E Gateways: Netgear vs. Asus
In the last post we shared some preliminary impressions of Wi-Fi 6E vs. Wi-Fi 6. 6E is identical to 6 except that 6E uses the 6GHz frequency band while 6 uses the 5GHz band. In the first test I used a...
View ArticleConnecting the Unconnected
In Episode #58 of the podcast, Tom Evslin joins Richard for a discussion and demonstration of Starlink in Vermont. Tom signed up for the Starlink beta and he uses it for our Zoom session. Tom is a...
View ArticleIIJA: Good Start, Long Way to Go
Now that the massive Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) has passed the Senate the time has come to see what’s in it and what’s not. On the “not” side we note one major omission: mobile. When...
View ArticleCongress Digs Into Broadband
Today’s House Communications and Technology subcommittee hearing on twelve small broadband bills isn’t going to break any new ground. The bills cover a wide range of issues, but none is significant...
View ArticleWill Rinehart on Broadband Infrastructure and Inclusion
H.R.3684 – the House Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – includes a $65B kicker for broadband networks in its trillion dollar appropriation package. This funding will extend broadband to unserved...
View ArticleShow Your Cards, FAA
The FAA is playing dirty. After failing to win support from the administration and Congress for its unwarranted ban on deployment of mid-band 5G anywhere in the country, the agency is leaning on the...
View ArticleWill Rinehart on Broadband Part Two
This is the second and final part of our conversation with Will Rinehart on broadband infrastructure plans. (First part is here.) We discuss some of the biases, information gaps, and challenges that...
View ArticleThe National Technology Innovation Administration
Wednesday’s hearing in the House Communications and Technology subcommittee features NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson, the missing witness from the Aviation subcommittee’s hearing on the FAA two weeks...
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Eric Schmidt’s Spectrum Agenda
Each change in presidential administrations reanimates old, rejected ideas in technology policy. While tech policy was once largely bipartisan, today it’s a bitter battlefield where basic facts are...
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