WiMax

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The 3.5ghz spectrum doesn't belong to Telkom and the ANC stooges enriching themselves out of Telkom. 3.5ghz and air molecules belongs to God Almighty. In other words I have a moral and ethical right to use the Wimax spectrum. We can all use the air to communicate, what is not ethical is to shout. I read on this forum that Wimax is going nowhere because of cyber squatting. The trouble with Wimax is that unlike Wi-fi the slightest interference and the hardware cuts back the signal - it can't tolerate interference. And since our laws are a joke the Wi-fi companies have simply decided to use Wimax and that's that. For Icasa to prosecute they would have to catch the installer with the basestation. There is nothing Icasa can do against somebody with a Wimax CPE.

So I propose we setup FrontingCompany to implement Wimax ourselves. I simply don't think that we should tolerate Telkom's ridiculous 3gig cap nonsense over Wimax. Nothing is going to change in this country and we as the end-users should only work with pirate Wimax providers that can prove they are not interfering with other Wimax stations in the 3.5ghz spectrum. The end-user will never be prosecuted since our fronting company with somebody fresh out of jail installed the the Wimax receivers. They can only gun for the installer. If they take him down we get somebody else out of jail - no problem. The fact is that Wimax is being used illegally and there is nothing Icasa can do about it - the police are swinging in the trees. We should just amongst ourselves force the pirate Wimax providers to subscribe to some code of spectrum conduct or 3.5ghz will soon be wrecked just like 2.4ghz. An even better idea would o fcourse be for Icasa to provide anybody who applies for a license with a license. Then we as consumers would be able to work with Icasa by refusing to subscribe to unlicensed providers. But since Icasa is controlled by Telkom I doubt that will happen. We basically need a constitutional amendment to get rid off Icasa. The danger with this is, is that once you start tinkering with the constitution the ANC could next mandate a longdrop besides every house in Dainfern - Dan Roodt will have a heart attack.

Withing the next 4 years Wimax CPEs will cost virtually nothing and the base stations around R10000. The Wimax chipset can be be programmed to use any frequency from 700mhz to 10ghz. We could have our own Wimax base stations manufactured and then workout some sort of scheme where we all cooperate to using any frequency 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4ghz etc without permission via our wonderful fronting companies. We need to explore all options and the cooperative deployment of Wimax - illegally - seems to be the solution. Mbeki's hands are tied by the constitution(a good thing by the way). It is now up to us to leverage the Wimax technology. And this will be a Godly righteous thing to do. We just need to start talking about doing it and doing it in a structured non-spectrum polluting way. The spectrum belongs to God n ot to Smuts Ngoyama.

Build own Wimax basestations: We can manufacture our own Wimax basestations somewhere in China. This will be in violation of whatever patents - but so what? Who cares. I am not bothered by patents only to get the the Wimax base stations. The actuall hardware is not that expensive, since we won't be paying anybody "licensing fees" we will get the base stations at cost price. Just get the job done, we simply can't have another 10years of Telkom 3gig caps. Combine Wimax with UAVs A UAV can be used as a highsite to repeat radio signals as explained here http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/UnmannedAerialVehicles

Install either a Mpeg-4 or Mpeg-2 decoding board in the UAV, which interfaces with the Wimax CPE. A small patch antenna inside the UAV is directed to the Wimax base station using some PID control loop, similar to what they use in aligning a UAV antenna with a satellite. This will allow a UAV to transmit digital signals over 40km to the base since it has LOS. The UAV gets the GPS signal form the cash-in-transit vehicle and keeps the camera trained on it in real-time. Thousands of UAVs could be deployed like this across South Africa protecting banks, shopping malls, farms and residential areas. If the Los Angeles police department can use UAVs then why can't the SAPS? Israel recently developed an in-air refueling UAV. Another solution is to use the 1.2ghz video frequency as explained under http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/RadioModems and install hundreds of bases stations across Gauteng with patch antenna's aimed into the sky to get a signal from the UAV analogue video transmitter flying at 250meters. One could probably use 2.4ghz http://rangevideo.com/ 1watt transmitters with a range of 10km, but this needs to be discussed with the Wi-fi community since omni analogue 2.4ghz signals trashes 2.4ghz digital signals. Converting 1.2 or 2.4ghz analogue to digital can be done but the digital circuit adds weight. Analogue video transmission is presently the preferred way to provide a real-time video signal but with limited range. Use a 1.2ghz or 2.4ghz patch antenna inside the UAV and keep it aligned with the base patch antenna via a PID control loop. The analogue 1.2ghz signal are converted on the ground by a PC capture card to Mpeg-4 and streamed via Wi-fi, Wimax and ADSL to the control centre

renwy@gdtex.com from http://www.starnetwifi.com can manurfacture an AP with minimum order quantity of 100. The Wimax design shouldn't be that complicated to pirate or whatever needs to be done to get it on say 3.1ghz - an unallocated frequency.

Merging Wimax with DSLAM, Dainfern, Blairatholl and Featherbrook: Finally the Wimax technology exists to link all these closed estates via their own custom illegal Wimax frequency which will enable them to buy and resell international satellite bandwidth. I am beginning to understand why the vested interests are so worked up over this http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/DsLam post of mine. The DSLAMs is not the issue it is the combination of DSLAM and Wimax that strikes terror into their hearts. Because the Wimax doesn't need LOS on short distances and the base stations and CPE modems can be hidden and easily removed before the Icasa goon squad arrives since any house on the DSLAM network can be used for the CPE Wimax modem and base station. Linking the DSLAM networks only needs say one illegal 2.8ghz parabolic antenna and not an omni which Icasa would easily be able to locate. Using the repeater functionality of Wimax one can create a telephone network over a 50x50km area and even larger. Then each DSLAM-community in turn redistributes the signal via Wi-Fi creating a de-facto TNO. But the DSLAM fixed wired network is the enabeling step that makes such a TNO possible.