Posted on 06/08/2021 5:48:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
Amazon is working on a shared low-bandwidth network and it needs your help – specifically your Wi-Fi.
By pooling neighbor's Wi-Fi together, the Seattle-based e-commerce giant says its Amazon Sidewalk network can extend the low-bandwidth working range of devices, ultimately helping them stay better connected to the internet.
The shared network works off of Sidewalk Bridge devices – including select Echo and Ring devices – together.
Sidewalk launched on eligible Ring devices last year, but will launch on eligible Echo devices on June 8.
"These Bridge devices share a small portion of your internet bandwidth which is pooled together to provide these services to you and your neighbors," according to Amazon's website. "And when more neighbors participate, the network becomes even stronger."
For instance, Sidewalk allows users to continue to receive motion alerts from Ring Security Cams even if a device loses its Wi-Fi connection, an Amazon spokesperson told FOX Business. Additionally, Sidewalk can be used to control your Ring smart lights at the end of a driveway or to track down a lost pet, the spokesperson said.
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Easier:
Don’t buy Amazon products...................
This is a very clever concept for the masses. I for one will not be participating.
Yeah Comcast gateway shares on a separate network from your home WiFi SSID.
I live too far from anyone to make this happen and I don’t have spy devices
Is your ROKU a little box, or is is also a stick? I have only used a ROKU box or an Apple TV box for streaming. I do not think the sticks have enough memory, hence the buffering issues. Also, I connect my ROKU and Apple TV to my router via LAN cables. I mainly use the Apple TV for streaming because I have a lot of iTunes movies that I watch on it.
Your microwave is spying on you........................
It’s a box that has Wi-Fi so it doesn’t store movies, etc. It connects you so that you can stream them. It holds it’s own software and information and that’s all from what I can tell. The Firestick is a stick. The Roku works much better.
Read the article.
Yeah, what is the range? Thanks.
It depends. Bluetooth has a nominal range based on class. Class 1 Bluetooth devices can go out ~100 meters (>300 ft.). Bluetooth operates at 900 MHz.
The higher you go in frequency, the smaller your range. This is a known axiom in radio.
As such, 2.4 GHz wifi has a smaller range, and 5 GHz even smaller (150 ft. & 125 ft. respectively). 5 GHz is also susceptible to being blocked easily by walls while lower frequencies tend to persist.
More likely cell phone. Things with microphones and cameras
You could just dump Commiezon but you wont.
“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Nah. That is old school.
Now days we BUY the rope that they are going to use to hang us.
And call it Prime.
This is potentially dangerous. I haven’t read if folks ‘sharing’ your wifi in this manner are going to have access to resources internal to your networks.
I’m not altogether opposed to having open wifi at home, but you really should know what you are doing, and set up separate VLANs for guests and such that do NOT have access to internal resources.
One benefit of having open wifi segments is the concept of ‘plausible deniability’. Bruce Schneier wrote an article about it years ago and made some interesting favorable comments about the idea.
Things with microphones and cameras you know about.
You should worry about things with microphones and cameras you DON’T KNOW ABOUT...........
MAC Address filtering is a pretty good way of limiting access if your list of ‘approved’ devices is fairly static. Otherwise, you can end up spending a lot of time modifying your ‘allow’ list.
If you have a Ring device, you can turn off Amazon ‘sidewalk’ in the settings.
Is the ROKU device a 1 time pay, or does it turn into a monthly?
(I have the ROKU free app on my tablet, just wondering if I could get better service if I bought the stick)
Just my opinion but I prefer the Roku Ultra over the Roku Stick. When I had the stick, the audio would sometimes pause for buffering. But could be the sticks are much better these days as I haven't heard that complaint from others who use it.
Redistribution of the white-privileged systemically racist bandwidth, that’s what it is, ya racisss.
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