We’re getting it next week. I cut cable years ago, but had to use DSL until now.
I know they have access to utility easements and such, but dont they have to notify before entering your property?
Not that I'm aware of. Out here everyone is pretty laid back.keith wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:23 pmI know they have access to utility easements and such, but dont they have to notify before entering your property?
I don't think so. We have meter readers every month who have to come on our property to read the gas meter at the back of the house, and the power company comes through every couple of years to trim trees and they have to go into people's yards to do it.keith wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:23 pmI know they have access to utility easements and such, but dont they have to notify before entering your property?
IEEE 802.11be or WiFi 7
IEEE 802.11be, dubbed Extremely High Throughput (EHT), is the latest of the IEEE 802.11 standard,[8][9] which is designated Wi-Fi 7.[10][11][12] It has built upon 802.11ax, focusing on WLAN indoor and outdoor operation with stationary and pedestrian speeds in the 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz frequency bands.[13]
Throughput is believed to reach a theoretical maximum of 46 Gbit/s, although actual results are much lower.[14]
Development of the 802.11be amendment is ongoing, with an initial draft in March 2021, and a final version expected by the end of 2024.[11][15][16] Despite this, numerous products were announced in 2022 based on draft standards, with retail availability in early 2023. On 8 January 2024, the Wi-Fi Alliance introduced its "Wi-Fi Certified 7" program to certify Wi-Fi 7 devices. While final ratification is not expected until the end of 2024, the technical requirements are essentially complete.[14]
The global Wi-Fi 7 market is estimated at US$1 billion in 2023, and is projected to reach US$24.2 billion by 2030.[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11
WiFi 7 Vs WiFi 6. More Speed & Capacity
WRITTEN BY
Ravindra Bhilave, Sr. Director, Product Management
HOW IS WIFI 7 DIFFERENT FROM WIFI 6/6E?
WiFi 7 offers benefits that are a quantum leap forward from WiFi 6 and WiFi 6E. With its faster speeds, lower latency, and significant capacity increases, WiFi 7 the new wireless standard is a major evolution of WiFi 6 and 6E, bears much in common with those earlier standards but with some significant improvements to meet our growing requirements. What has changed, what is still the same, and when should you upgrade? Let’s have a look.
LEARN MORE: WHAT IS WIFI 7?Faster speeds
- What’s new in the WiFI 7 Standard?
46Gbps – 4.8X FASTER SPEED
Up to 2.4x Faster for the same WiFi configuration
320MHz – 2X BANDWIDTH
4096 QAM – X DATA DENSITY
Most exciting and noteworthy, WiFi 7 will be much faster than WiFi 6. For the same WiFi radio configuration, the speeds will be 2.4x faster. So, maximum speeds with a typical mobile phone with WiFi 7 can reach up to 5Gbps. As the Internet speed offered by internet service providers (ISPs) continues to grow, WiFi 7 helps to ensure your home is ready for 10 Gigabit internet speeds as they become available.
But what makes these incredible speeds possible? They’re due to the next two major upgrades.
Greater channel width
Each WiFi band operates in smaller bands of 20/40/80/160MHz MHz for connecting to individual devices. WiFi 7 doubles the bandwidth to 320MHz. Effectively, this doubles the WIFi speeds to individual devices and adds a lot more bandwidth to support more devices.
More data density
WiFi 7 increases not only speed and bandwidth but also the amount of data that can be encoded onto a radio signal. This is measured by a standard known as quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). Where WiFi 6’s QAM limit was 1024, WiFi 7 offers an impressive 4096 (or 4K; the standard is also known as 4K QAM), boosting its peak rates to increase throughput. Each symbol transmitted can now carry 12 bits rather than 10 bits, meaning 20% higher theoretical transmission rates.
Both the greater channel bandwidth (320MHz) and more data density (4K QAM) account for the 2.4x improvement in WiFi speeds between WiFi 6 and WiFi 7.
Other significant Improvements in WiFi 7
Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
Currently routers can support multiple WiFi bands- 2.4, 5 & 6GHz, but WiFi clients connect using one of the WiFi bands. With WiFi 7, routers will be able to connect across two different bands to a client device.
Imagine two highways leading to your destination. MLO is similar to giving these highways the flexibility to either spread the traffic across both routes or to quickly move traffic from one highway to another if one gets congested.
Mesh systems would especially benefit from MLO as it would allow for a router and a satellite both capable of transmitting simultaneously across two different bands to get the best performance. This feature will also be very useful for switching from one band to another on your mobile device without losing the connection. If you are on a Zoom call and walk from the center of the house to the backyard, WiFi 7 will allow your device to switch from 6GHz to 5GHz to 2.4GHz without dropping the call or buffering.
Flexible channel utilization
One key limitation with WiFi is that any kind of interference impacts the entire channel. With “puncturing,” if a portion of a channel gets impacted due to interference, that portion alone can be blocked while continuing to use rest of the channel for data transfer. This makes WiFi more resistant to interference and ensures critical flow and latency are not impacted. Going back to our highway example, using WiFi 6 a pothole in a lane can make that lane unusable, but with WiFi 7 you can block the pothole and drive around and still use rest of the lane.
What hasn’t changed?With WiFi 7’s incredible specs, it’s easy to overlook the fact that it builds on WiFi 6 & 6E features and infrastructure. As noted above, WiFi 6 and WiFi 7 both offer the same three bands, including the lightning-fast 6GHz band. Both feature tremendous bandwidth. And both WiFi 6E and WiFi 7 have technology providers still playing catch-up, with new devices being introduced to unlock the full potential of either standard. Even in the shadow of the forthcoming WiFi 7, WiFi 6E should still be considered a cutting-edge technology.
- SAME THREE BANDS
LIGHTNING-FAST SPEEDS
MASSIVE BANDWIDTH
LIMITED DEVICE SUPPORT
https://www.netgear.com/hub/technology/ ... vs-wifi-6/
Same as it ever was.Throughput is believed to reach a theoretical maximum of 46 Gbit/s, although actual results are much lower.
All motor vehicle departments in the United States went down Thursday, according to officials in multiple states.
Officials in Illinois, Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, Arkansas and Colorado all confirmed they experienced an outage.
"We are currently experiencing a nationwide network outage at our DMV facilities," tweeted Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias. "All DMVs across the country are currently down."
Virginia's DMV said the outage stemmed from "a third-party technical outage," and that driver's license services were unavailable online and at all in-person locations.
"We apologize for the inconvenience. Please stay tuned to social media for updates," the agency said.
The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, a nongovernmental group that provides software to DMV offices, said Thursday: “The network that connects motor vehicle agencies across the United States to each other and to various verification services experienced an outage due to a loss in cloud connectivity.”
The outage lasted from 9:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT, a spokesperson for the AAMVA said.
"During that time, there was no ability to process messages that support transactions of driver licenses and motor vehicle titles. This prevented a number of motor vehicle agencies from issuing driver licenses and vehicle titles during the outage," the AAMVA said, noting it was working internally and with cloud providers to determine the "root cause" of the outage.
AAMVA said that connectivity was restored to nearly all states as of 2 p.m. EDT, noting “the outage had nothing to do with software — strictly connectivity.”
This may have been much bigger than just a couple of state DMV's. We suffered a major network outage today that was giving big problems with our cloud services and other stuff. Apparently, it was a problem with external service providers, not internal to us. The notification said that there was a major cable cut and the network/cloud provider was having trouble rerouting traffic.Volkonski wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:52 pm DMVs Nationwide Hit With Outage, Officials In Multiple States Say
https://patch.com/new-york/northfork/s/ ... cb4d8b4d76
All motor vehicle departments in the United States went down Thursday, according to officials in multiple states.
Officials in Illinois, Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, Arkansas and Colorado all confirmed they experienced an outage.
"We are currently experiencing a nationwide network outage at our DMV facilities," tweeted Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias. "All DMVs across the country are currently down."
Virginia's DMV said the outage stemmed from "a third-party technical outage," and that driver's license services were unavailable online and at all in-person locations.
"We apologize for the inconvenience. Please stay tuned to social media for updates," the agency said.
EU investigates Apple, Meta and Google owner Alphabet under new tech law
Technology groups face hefty fines if they are found guilty of breaching Digital Markets Act
Dan Milmo and Lisa O'Carroll
Mon 25 Mar 2024 14.17 CET
Apple, Google’s parent company and Meta are being investigated by the EU for potential breaches of the bloc’s new laws designed to police anti-competitive behaviour by big technology companies.
The trio face significant fines if they are found guilty of breaching the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a landmark piece of regulation that came into force on 7 March and is aimed at increasing choice for online consumers.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said it was looking at potential breaches related to: Apple and Google’s measures allowing app developers to “steer” users to offers outside their app stores; whether Alphabet, Google’s owner, favours its own services such as Google shopping in search results on its search engine; Meta’s decision to charge users for an ad-free experience on Facebook and Instagram and whether it complies with DMA provisions on users’ personal data; and whether Apple is making it easy for users to pick alternative browsers on their phones.
“The commission suspects that the measures put in place by these gatekeepers fall short of effective compliance of their obligations under the DMA,” said the commission.
The law requires the six tech “gatekeepers” – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and the TikTok owner ByteDance, which provide services such as search engines, social networks and chat apps used by other businesses – to comply with guidance to ensure a level playing field for their rivals and to give users more choices.
Thierry Breton, the commissioner for the internal market, said the companies faced the threat of “heavy fines” if they were found to have breached the act.
“The Digital Markets Act became applicable on 7 March,” he said. “We have been in discussions with gatekeepers for months to help them adapt, and we can already see changes happening on the market. But we are not convinced that the solutions by Alphabet, Apple and Meta respect their obligations for a fairer and more open digital space for European citizens and businesses.”
The competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, said the companies had had plenty of time to comply with the act, adding that the commission had worked with them to ensure they were compliant.
“I definitely do not think this is rushed,” Vestager told reporters. She said the point of the new laws was “not to have cases” but to give consumers choices to which they were entitled under competition laws.
“The soon we have changes, the sooner consumers can have the benefit of having the DMA,” she said. She said the EU had put in place “strong deterrents” to encourage tech companies to take their obligations seriously with hefty fines for those that failed to meet the standards required.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... arkets-act
In the wake of CYA2K, after the Telecom Meltdown of 2001, we snapped up as much dark fiber in the dirt as we could afford. We stitched together physically separate paths from the pieces, and then sold it.johnpcapitalist wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:54 pm This may have been much bigger than just a couple of state DMV's. We suffered a major network outage today that was giving big problems with our cloud services and other stuff. Apparently, it was a problem with external service providers, not internal to us. The notification said that there was a major cable cut and the network/cloud provider was having trouble rerouting traffic.
Scientists set new internet speed world record 300 million mbps!
New method of transmitting data uses previously unexplored wavelengths
Akash Pandey
Apr 01, 2024 06:28 pm
What's the story
A team of scientists from Aston University in the UK has achieved a groundbreaking feat in data transmission, setting a new global benchmark. In collaboration with Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and Nokia Bell Labs in the US, they successfully transferred data at an unprecedented speed of 301 million megabits per seconds.
This speed is 4.5 million times faster than the average broadband speed in the UK and surpasses the US average by one million times.
Technological innovation
Novel wavelength bands key to speed achievement
The secret behind this remarkable achievement lies in the use of innovative wavelength bands, not typically used in conventional fiber optic systems.
Ian Phillips, a researcher at Aston University, explained that these new wavelength bands can be compared to "different colors of light being transmitted down the optical fiber."
The data was sent via an optical fiber using two additional spectral bands known as E-band and S-band, in addition to the commercially available C and L-bands.
Amplifier innovation
University engineered breakthrough optical amplifier
Aston University has developed an optical amplifier that allows data wavelengths to operate in the E-band, which is about three times broader compared to traditional wavelengths used for data transmission.
This achievement marks the first time E-band channels have been successfully replicated in a controlled environment.
The innovative approach doesn't require new infrastructure, potentially enabling significantly faster internet speeds using existing fiber cables.
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/scien ... cord/story
US Federal Data Privacy Law Introduced by Legislators
8 APR 2024
Written by James Coker
A bipartisan US federal data protection law has been drafted by two US lawmakers, aiming to codify and enforce privacy rights for all US citizens.
Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA 5th District) who is the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair, and Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Chair, unveiled the draft legislation on April 7, 2024.
They have dubbed the draft bill the American Privacy Rights Act.
The national law aims give US citizens greater control over their personal data, limiting the ability of big tech firms to process, transfer and sell such information.
It also mandates stronger cybersecurity standards for organizations to protect personal data they hold from being hacked or stolen, giving enforcement powers to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), States and individuals for any violations.
Key provisions in the draft Act include:Rodgers commented: “This landmark legislation gives Americans the right to control where their information goes and who can sell it. It reins in Big Tech by prohibiting them from tracking, predicting, and manipulating people’s behaviors for profit without their knowledge and consent. Americans overwhelmingly want these rights, and they are looking to us, their elected representatives, to act.”
- Minimizing the data that companies can collect, keep, and use about people, of any age, to what companies actually need to provide them products and services
More powers for citizens to control how their personal data is used, such as preventing the transfer or selling of their data, opting out of data processing if a company changes its privacy policy, and
Requiring organizations to obtain express consent before sensitive data can be transferred to a third party
Banning companies from using people’s personal information to discriminate against them in decisions about housing, employment, healthcare, credit opportunities, education, insurance, or access to places of public accommodation
Giving individuals the right to sue organizations who violate their privacy rights
Mandating strong data security standards that will prevent data from being hacked or stolen
Authorizes the Federal Trade Commission, States, and consumers to enforce against violations
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/n ... gislators/
So we got most of our money back on the Epson ink tank printer. They didn't want it back. I still haven't thrown it out, it breaks my heart to throw away an entire printer worth hundreds of dollars, just because it has a paper jam that I can't fix and nobody else wants to fix it. That's stupid.
