Google considering "Wireless balloons" to deliver internet to countries
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[QUOTE]Among these methods are satellite Internet and the aforementioned "balloons" plan, which would use "high-altitude platforms" to blast a wireless signal across an area spanning hundreds of square miles.[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2419501,00.asp?[/URL]
the fucking future m8
That sounds fucking cool.
I love verbs like "blast" in terms of internet and wifi
it's like we're shooting beams of pure concentrated data to vaporize people
obligatory swamp gas post
It wasn't a weather balloon it was a google balloon!
[QUOTE=jamzzster;40812711]It wasn't a weather balloon it was a google balloon![/QUOTE]
google was behind the Roswell incident all along
they've been developing this in secret since 1947 before even founding the company!
feels really like a sci-fi thing
seeing flying orbs around having the control of the internet connection entirely on the city
It's a great idea but wireless networks are slow as shit compared to wired networks. It'll be a great temporary solution until more reliable, faster infrastructure can be installed.
[QUOTE=JanusVestaALT;40813125]It's a great idea but wireless networks are slow as shit compared to wired networks. It'll be a great temporary solution until more reliable, faster infrastructure can be installed.[/QUOTE]
You can get huge levels of bandwidth (without much added latency!) on stationary wireless transmission - that is - you know almost exactly where the receiver is. So the backbone could be fast enough, then you'd just need to focus on connectivity to people on the ground. There isn't too huge a difference between that and non-stationary though - so either would work.
Easier and more efficient than laying a fibre network to a remote place, I'd say.
Balloon satellites for internet in remote locations? THAT sounds like a plan; could come in handy for communications on offworld colonies (balloon satellites providing regional net, that is)
[QUOTE=Limed00d;40812685]obligatory swamp gas post[/QUOTE]
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[I][B]"You want some Wi-fi?"[/B][/I]
"Hey son, want to go shooting? I found some cool targets for us to shoot at recently."
[QUOTE=99$-Plate;40814040]"Hey son, want to go shooting? I found some cool targets for us to shoot at recently."[/QUOTE]
They're probably too high for one to shoot down.
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;40814092]They're probably too high for one to shoot down.[/QUOTE]
If they are at a kilometer+ altitude then they'll be out of range from just about everything.
google is swamp gas!
I hope they look like zeppelins. Zeppelins are cool. Also, Google Zep is a great name for the concept.
[editline]28th May 2013[/editline]
You can pay me millions later.
They really need to make space-satellites that can do this.
Early prototype
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