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Comment Re:Slashvertisement (Score 1) 51

by Pete43 on Sunday June 27, 2010 @05:53AM (#32707978) Attached to: WiBE Shared Hotspot Pitched For Rural Broadband in UK

The clever part is that although it's trivial to point a high-gain antenna towards the source of the best signal, most people don't. Deltenna pack extremely high-gain antennas into a small package and all the user needs to do is sit it somewhere near a window. The WiBE' uses electronic beam-forming to get a high gain in the correct direction and periodically repeats the process so that the best signal is always selected.

WiBE Shared Hotspot Pitched For Rural Broadband in UK 51

Posted by timothy on Friday June 25, 2010 @05:08AM from the until-the-cows-come-home dept.

justice4all writes "A British company claims to have solved the problem of delivering a reliable broadband connection to people in rural communities. Deltenna has developed a small, self-installable gadget called the WiBE (Wireless Broadband Enabler) that uses the 3G mobile network to create a 2Mbps web hotspot. The device sounds similar in concept to devices like Novatel's MiFi, but Deltenna claims it works even in places where a 3G mobile phone wouldn't register a signal. The WiBE has five times the range of a 3G dongle, and can deliver 30 times data throughput compared to a 3G USB modem dongle, Deltenna believes."

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