[ale] All you Comcast fanboys...

[Pete Hardie]

I always wonder if a mesh network via home wifi could work for
email/messaging traffic, although it does not solve for web access or data
download/streaming

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> The first pain point is access to poles or right of way for buried fiber.
> Serious limits to wireless bandwidth. Long-haul open air laser is disrupted
> by rain, leaves, new billboards, etc. At some point, connection to actual
> Internet has to happen and that is $$$$painpoint$$$$ #2
>
> My neighborhood had conduit in place and ready for fiber pull. The cost of
> termination and splitting at the driveway and head end hardware has to be
> amortized over the finance period with the hope it's paid of before it's
> totally obsolete and paying users move on.
>
> The last mile providers are in a death spiral and demand far exceeds
> financial incentive to upgrade. Any talk of upgrades forced by legislation
> makes some very loud people very upset.
>
> I can see a community/hacker space run project to devise slow speed or
> emergency comms for ordinary users.
> On Jan 30, 2015 12:10 PM, "Michael Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>
>> This group surprises me.
>>
>> It shouldn't be hard to build an Internet where we little peoples peer
>> with each other. Maybe not able to preserve 1 GBPS everywhere, but I know
>> this: I will find a way out of the Comcast network. GF won't hit my area.
>> That's OK, though.
>>
>> We can build the User Controlled Network.
>>
>> After all it is the only answer to the question and problem of network
>> neutrality: prohibit The Man from controlling the network!
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Jan 30, 2015, at 9:04 AM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 01/30/2015 08:41 AM, Dylan Northrup wrote:
>> >> Only for customers for whom Google is an option. . . for me in
>> Marietta,
>> >> Comcast and AT&T are my only options (and DSL isn't really an
>> option).  Google
>> >> Fiber won't be an option for quite a while, if ever.  I can only hope
>> when
>> >> Comcast modifies their plans to respond to Google Fiber in the areas
>> it's
>> >> available those modifications will be effective across all
>> municipalities in
>> >> the Atlanta area.
>> >
>> > Let's be serious.  Google Fibre won't be an option for most of the
>> people in the
>> > metro area for years.  Remember how long ago they announced for
>> Austin?  They
>> > just started taking real signups last Oct. If enough of a neighborhood
>> doesn't
>> > sign up, they don't get it.  Google is cherry picking neighborhoods.  I
>> think
>> > this is more about embarrassing other providers into providing higher
>> speed than
>> > anything else - well - besides having router access to tracking data.
>> >
>> > AT&T, Comcast and Cox have 18 months to upgrade the areas where GF will
>> be
>> > installed to prevent subscriber losses. And that is exactly what
>> they've done in
>> > Austin. Places on the list for GF magically got
>> > http://kxan.com/2014/11/24/google-fiber-plans-moving-forward/ higher
>> speeds from
>> > 3 providers and reduced prices.  None of my friends in Austin can get
>> GF and
>> > they aren't in areas likely to see it for yrs though they do live
>> inside the
>> > city limits. No TWC bandwidth change for them, at least not yet.
>> >
>> > In short, hope for the best, but don't hold your breath. ;(
>> >
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