Posts by cswilly2

Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks

Re: Mobile networks have too much spectrum already

>>> they use 450Mhz for M2M service only. I am not sure what that is.

Often this is to connect smart meters to the utilities' meter management systems. In German, there is an utility association that was given this band for free.

Rocket Lab successfully catches falling rocket booster with a helicopter

Re: Wish there was a video

Video of the catch

https://youtu.be/6nODVPGHQcc?t=2798

There's a new Chipzilla in town: Samsung topples Intel to become largest chip maker

Re: TSMC?

TSMC was 3rd in this 20-Dec-2021 forecast behind Samsung and Intel according to:

https://www.icinsights.com/news/bulletins/17-Semiconductor-Companies-Forecast-To-Have-100-Billion-In-Sales-This-Year/

Linky revisited: How the evil French smart meter escaped Hell to taunt me

Nonsense. See

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linky#Courants_porteurs_en_ligne

All the meters use power line communication to connect to the concentrator in the transformer station. From there they use wireless GPRS Edge (kind of a 3G and 3G+ technology).

Six manufacturers of Linky not One

>>>Same manufacturer for the smart meters?

Not true. See

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linky#Fabrication

Ahhhhh! What year is it?! Users left without direction or clue after Google Calendar 404s

Google Calendar is working in France now.