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join:2003-07-28
Garland, TX | No opposition? Are the cable and dsl giants napping? Where is the opposition? | |
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chiefeyes
join:2001-08-14
Thomaston, ME | Re: No opposition? I live in Thomaston, Me. Adelphia is here along with Verizon DSL. I will believe this when I see it !!!;) | |
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chiefeyes
join:2001-08-14
Thomaston, ME | Re: No opposition? Yes, they have been running tests locally. The target appears to be very small communities up here without any access to High Speed internet. Here on the coast access is not too bad but further inland is pretty much virgin territory. | |
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LoneGreyWolf
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join:2002-09-09
Bath, NY
clubs:  | Wish they were in rural NYS Now if I could only get them to come to rural New York, I won't have to deal with 21.6kbps dial-up. | |
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chiefeyes
join:2001-08-14
Thomaston, ME
| Re: Wish they were in rural NYS Further examination of their website www. Mesh-air.com reveals a slight error in the orginal story. Speeds are not 200 times faster than dial-up but rather 20 times as fast. Must have line of sight to one of their stations and within 10 miles. They are offering speeds of 1MB. They might want to change that to the infamous "up to 1MB".  | |
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LoneGreyWolf
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join:2002-09-09
Bath, NY
clubs: | Re: Wish they were in rural NYS I would happily take 20 times over my current connection... 8-) | |
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jazzy112
join:2003-12-05
Fargo, ND
| 200x Dial Up.... Has anybody done the math yet?????
Good Lord, the only way you are going to see 100mbit is to be directly connected to the first node connected to the Backbone. What a bunch of boneheads to be promising 200x dialup.Even if you are running in Turbo mode the fastest the lucky user is going to see will be 54mb, as you get further and further away from the backbone, your bandwidth drops exponentially. 3rd hop is 27, 4th is 14. We all know how well turbo mode works, so I doubt they're stupid enough to do that on that large of scale. So then your looking at 54 at the first node, 27 at the second and 14 at the 3rd. And lets not forget how big of a frequency hog 802.11g is, then that drops you to a starting point of 11, followed by 5.5 and 2.75.
Lets not forget about the users, on a mesh it only takes a handful of bandwidth hogs to kill the whole system. Remember judging by the article, they are only injecting bandwidth at one location. That means all of their users will flow through 1 802.11 radio....Yuk.
They can have their oversold crap, I'll keep my standard fixed wireless with a decent backhaul support. | |
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LoneGreyWolf
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join:2002-09-09
Bath, NY
clubs: | Re: 200x Dial Up.... It's still better then my connection. Right now I am connected at a blazing 24.0kbps. | |
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| | Damon85
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join:2004-12-25
Louisville, KY
| Re: 200x Dial Up.... It's always nice when people who have forgotten what dial-up is like chime in to say how bad something is...
I'd take the possibility of 1mbps downloads over dial-up 24kbps surety any day... who cares if it slows down to 60kbps under heavy load? It's still faster than dial-up. | |
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| barky
Premium
join:2001-03-17
San Diego, CA | Wait, whered you get 100mbit in the first place? For 200 x Dialup = 100mbit , to be true, Dialup would have to be 512kbps. We know its 1mbit now, which is around 20x dialup speed. Theres no reason their wireless won't be as stable as yours. | |
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| ElJay
join:2004-03-17
South Portland, ME
 ·Great Works Internet
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March 27th, @04:00PM
| It's a joke. I live near the deployment area of this service and there has been propaganda in the local papers about how fast and cheap this service is going to be. I get 2mbps DSL service for $35/mo and I don't have to worry about sharing bandwidth with anybody in my neighborhood. I highly doubt that the mesh network is going to offer anybody steady speeds, especially during peak usage times.
Does anybody know what effects this type of mesh network would have on private 802.11 access points set up in a home? We already have a point-to-point wireless internet provider in the area that utilizes the 900MHz, 2.4GHz, and 5.8GHz frequency bands, but it requires line of sight to the ISP's antennas. This mesh idea sounds like it's going to be in the way of anybody else trying to use the 2.4GHz spectrum. | |
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| indigo
join:1999-08-22
Covina, CA
| Re: / Yeah, I know there's no way FIOS will ever be in this state.. we're always slighted on any new technology. Hell, much of the state still doesn't have DSL, and many areas that do pay prices like $150 per month for 1.5Mbps down and 512kbps up. Sadly, the best broadband provider for most of the state is Adelphia, which has 5Mbps down and 512kbps up, but they ban servers, so the 512 up doesn't really do much good.
GWI is nice but they're only in a few dozen coastal communities. | |
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34613b
@dsl-w.verizon | Re: / 512 is plenty fast for 95% of the consumers out there. 128 up has done well for years in most areas. Heck, 384 is pretty standard on many cable systems. | |
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Going Wireless in Maine
Re: No opposition?
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