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Steven J. Crowley
Personal blog · stevencrowley.comhardwarescience
Steven J. Crowley's personal blog at stevencrowley.com covers hardware and science. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Steven Crowley's posts on wireless and telecom topics, such as ultra-wideband regulation, Egypt's internet shutdown and Google's cellular test spectrum. One commenter values it for technical detail.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
The paranoid conspiracy theorist in me also suspects that this is why the FCC fought against UWB approval. http://stevencrowley.com/2010/09/02/ultra-wideband-how-regul... There are many devices using UWB, but as far as I know, none of them allow long-range communication: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_USB http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=4318
Comment linking /2010/09/02/ultra-wideband-how-regulatory-and-standardization-delays-slowed-its-progress/
on “Egypt has shut off the Internet (update: not everywhere)”Submitted Coldplay’s Wireless Hardware Startup (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis post is a summary of a WSJ which is mostly a summary of this blog post: http://stevencrowley.com/2013/01/23/googles-confidential-tes... It includes more technical information and less idle speculation. The frequencies used are 2524-2546 and 2567-2625 MHz which are licensed to Clearwire but not (yet) widely used for anything. > We don’t know yet exactly what Google is testing here. It might be devices it created…
Comment linking /2013/01/23/googles-confidential-test-might-be-a-super-dense-lte-network-using-clearwires-spectrum/
on “Google's Private Cell Phone Network”
