| Cool! I was intrigued when I first read about this a while back. I'm curious how much of my upstream this kind of AP would take up. From the sound of things, if you hook one of these units up it basically mimics a cell tower and would provide cell service to ANY Sprint user within range.
So, in essence, my precious bandwidth (upstream anyway, since I don't care about downstream bandwidth) could be used by neighbors with Sprint without my knowing it? Also, and I know this is probably a silly question, but would my broadband connection be further utilized by neighbors with Vision or EVDO? Do the femtocells offer data connections to Sprint users within range?
- Tate
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| I answered my own question somewhat -- at the end of the Airave presentation (»airave.sprint.com/?id9=vanity:airave) they mention that ringtones, text messages, etc., will be billed normally. That strongly suggest to me that data service WILL be available through the femotocell (though probably not EVDO). If anyone finds information to the contrary, please correct me.
Also, it says that only *three* phones will be able to use a AP at once, so at least voice traffic won't completely saturate your broadband connection if you live around several Sprint using families. 
- Tate
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Happiness is an OC-48 in your basement... |
