footnote, wifi 6e (6ghz)

 

The lastest android 15 beta adds a grayed out line that basically says my country or region does not support 6ghz.
So I changed the region (to "south Korea") and now it blocks 5ghz too.
It only allows 2.4ghz.
Not nice to fool the phone company (I guess)
But
If I kept picking regions faster than my nose, would it eventually open up or just keep getting worse, forever.....
It must have been a permanent thing because it no longer asks me about frequencies at all (nothing).
I just downloaded a wifi analyzer that can see 6ghz. But the phone might be blocking 6ghz access; I would not really know.

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An "Incentivized" review for a typical Wi-Fi 7 router 

is so full of it ya wonder why for it's "Incentivized,"

 did the store manager want to sell a few?

WHY in god's green earth would you shell out big bucks for "WiFi 7"
and NOT get 6GHz??
Because, what is wifi 7 anyway, a f'ing price point to hang trendy items off of?

Wait, Whut?!



"6e", I'm convinced, is wifi 7 without the trendy f'ing name attached.
consider:

That this waif of a router has 6ghz and
is less than half what wifi 7 costs
(the one above it with "wifi 7" in the moniker.)
Alas, hmm, it dies quickly. Meh, you can't have it all.
Selling this shit must be a freaking nightmare, but
I'll totally *imagine* the trainees and ex-addicts making the bottom-end crap
(soldering and resoldering) might have something to do with the results
"It's Great!! " "It died"
Or what would you blame it on, heat?
The Cat?
I need to shut up now, before my "Acer Predator" monitor takes offense.

After a 5-minutes ago update
(Yew Turkeys)

That was as a client to the phone, which is suddenly a Mennonite.
Reverifying "Hotspot" from my PC (Don't wait up:)

Did I wash my hands/
Say my prayers at night/
Reverify (reinstall, pay the man)?

The windows structure installed a lower-down driver and now it allows hotspots,

but only at wpa/wpa2
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/08/2023-28006/unlicensed-use-of-the-6-ghz-band-and-expanding-flexible-use-in-mid-band-spectrum-between-37-and-24#:~:text=DATES%3A,is%20effective%20March%208%2C%202024.

A preliminary report that I don't know was adopted, says:

6ghz Wifi can operate at very low power, indoors or out, "14dbm", as long as it's not part of a "fixed outdoor system" (like a cell tower???)
And (this part is real murky (mmmurrr^%%$)

can prioritize certain "6ghz" frequencies.

In other words (bottom line) 6ghz is heavily restricted, just like 5ghz.
Old ladies with receivers could still call the police to have your ass arrested.

Cellphone companies (say the people writing this draft) are mightily pissed off that 2.4GHz interferes with their towers.
The FCC turned a deaf ear to that (in their report.)

Yeahbutt...is this a for-real thing or just words in a report long forgotten??

San francisco (everybody)
And Texas (Apple, because they're different/better)
ran two hundred tests (so, 400?) proving that VLP devices didn't affect existing Microwave installations.

(They did a lot of "Can you hear me now?" tests...)
Cisco has a lot plainer (but much more restrictive) summary.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/wireless/catalyst-9100ax-access-points/ghz-unlicensed-spectrum-reg-wp.html

eg, No battery-powered wifi transmitters. Whuut???

"Standard power" vs low Power (I think)

Both of the above links spent tons of time and typists' fingers explaining the exact unreadable details. 
I'm thinking that Lawyers for companies haven't finished reading, 
or

They're waiting for Trump to get elected.

Nothing else makes much sense.

I'd like to draw your attention to "Hotspots are not allowed" just above.

DOC-397315A1.pdf

They did tests, Overseen (in many instances) by AT&T.

The specific tests had to prove many things too bombastic to list, but apparently "Radio Astronomy" was one of the sacred cows.

EPRI (Energy Power Research Institute) was another overseer, according to the cryptic report I'm listing here.

OK I am still reading but Drafts, proposals and tests are all I've found so far.
You can thank AT&T, kids, for many of the tests and restrictions
 ("Thanks, AT&T")

In short, (lol) private citizens had little or nothing to do with wifi 7, it's all a bunch of really BIG companies.

In the same (unreadable) report, "C3Spectra" wants approval to make wifi happen for ISP's, so it's officially a business, not just Todd and his sister with a fancy-ass router.

But I have not found the final decree from their highnesses and the nobles feeding them info.
I'm sure it exists, somewhere.
It was "Ratified" as any reddit bombast will tell you, but what does that mean????
Which devices are worthy, which states, which cities??
What are the f'ing rules and why won't most devices work at 6GHz?

An excerpt from one of the lastest reports in February

6ghz, wpa3 personal,
They're all there, present, not voting.
There is no menu to select "wpa3" in "hotspot"
and the very top where it says "Hosted network supported NO"
Kind of seals the kiss of death

My logic problem (so far): everyone says that the newfangled 6ghz requires WPA3 but windows has no way of choosing wpa3 and only chooses wpa/wpa2, which consigns it to the outer darkness of 5ghz (6ghz is not something you can choose anyway, on my beta windows)

So despite all their boring advice, you cannot choose the options they say you must have.

"any port in a storm" seems to be the way WiFi was originally designed.
You pick a fucking network, get on and use their service.
But what if you're picky, discerning, "upper crust"? 

6ghz, wpa3?
No soup for you.



What's better than flipping a light-switch?
Having the internet do it for you:

(I'm googling Google blocking 6ghz, 

and this unrelated left-field bloggy thing came up:)

Click to read

Cisco https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/wireless/catalyst-9100ax-access-points/ghz-unlicensed-spectrum-reg-wp.html#Lowpower

Seems to think standard-power must check in with an overweening authority once in a while, but VLP devices are exempt from that Tyranny, and anyway good luck finding a AFC authority in your area, hmm.

But Cisco goes on about 160mhz (not 320mhz) making me think Cisco's reports are a little dated, but they are so much easier to read!

You (according to Cisco's hoary reports) cannot have a battery-powered hotspot.
Why couldn't you just use a 120VAC inverter?? It's for stuff like toasters.
You'd be skirting the VLP Law but satisfying the spirit, if not the letter, of the Law.
(I feel like what it must be like to be a Talmudic Student)

conjecture (guessing) warning:

The stuff you bought a couple months ago does not comply.
Resistance is ...(o nvm)

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