25/3 probably means 25mbps down and 3mbps up. ---- Frank Wimberly
www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 10:06 PM Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Gary, > > > > You will be pleased to know that the local group is calling itself, > Hinternet. > > > > They are promising “25/3”, whatever that means. They said it was the > minimum standard for > “broad band”. And that was not a variable. No throttling. NO time off > for bad behavior. Unlimited access at that speed. “So”, I asked them, > “What happens when everybody starts streaming the Superbowl at once?” > “No problem. We have a gig in our pipe and we’ll smoke it” or words to > that effect. > > > > Does anybody know what those words mean? > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Gary > Schiltz > *Sent:* Monday, April 23, 2018 10:54 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The Last Mile, again > > > > Way to go, mosquito infested bog guy! I'd be curious how much "raw > bandwidth" ends up costing the group. What speed are they promising each > client? Here in the People's Republic of Ecuador, dedicated bandwidth goes > for about $10-20 per Mbps. I manage a micro network of 4 households and get > 8 Mbps for $120/month ($30 for each household), which so far has been > enough to do medium quality streaming of Amazon Prime video. Not great, but > then, this is the hinterland. > > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 8:43 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> > wrote: > > Dear friends and relations, > > > > There is a movement afoot to bring broad band to us here in the mosquito > infested bog. A group of locals is forming a for=profit company to bring > internet (25/3) to hundreds of subscribers in our hilly, rural town. They > will put 4 “Radwin” transmitters atop 150 foot towers on two local hill > tops with smaller repeaters as necessary. The transmitters look for all > the world like Mac Powerbooks. Each house will have a waffle sized > receiver. The plan for 200 dollar initial buy-in cost and a one hundred > dollar per month subscription cost for UNLIMITED service at the advertised > rate. (No “up to”.) I now pay about a hundred dollars a month for a > Verizon jetpack which pays for only ten gigs of data. To stay within that > limit I have to turn off anything that moves on the internet, and go to the > local library to get podcasts, movies, or to update software, or do a cloud > backup. > > > > In short, I am enthusiastic about the idea. What’s wrong with it? And if > nothing is wrong with it, why haven’t all you Eldorado folks done it > already. Go ahead. Rain on my parade. I asked them if they were afraid > that Verizon would get religion and put in DSL at the last moment just to > put them out of business. Their response was that local DSL service is > so crappy that it probably wouldn’t make any difference. They say their > real competitor is Elon Musk who is planning a vast satellite service that > will light up everyone in the universe > > > > I gather you have all been suffering gale force winds and duststorms. > Ugh. We, for our part, have had seven snowfalls since we got here. (All > minor, but still, relentlessly gray and chilly) The weather broke this > weekend and the garden is beginning to be populated. I hope the > equivalent break is happening for you. > > > > Miss you lots, > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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