paulcardoza wrote:
With 5g cellular service on the horizon, the days of wired based internet access are numbered, IMO.
No matter what type wireless link, internet access always goes to a wire to reach the routers and data centers.
Wired service to a static location will always be faster, cheaper and more reliable than wireless service.
But we don't have a static location, so our hotspot is our link to the internet.
I've worked on a corporate setup that would handle 500 live video streams. We could have about 100 of those wireless in the building, and the others had to be wired. It is doable - if the wire to the head of the wireless system exists.
They do an over 500 hundred person WiFi system that can handle live video every year for a couple of the big computer electronics shows. But it is expensive. In the low seven figures to setup such a system. Most of the money is to setup the wired end of the WiFi network. Thus those shows are at the same location for several years to pay for the infrastructure costs.