> On 6 Dec 2019, at 22:54, Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote: > > (For Iridium, that assumes one has line of sight.)
All sat. links are line of sight. Iridium orginally was planning 77 units, so one would always be in sight. > > For perspective, I live on the Silicon Valley Coastside (i.e., Half Moon > Bay). Comcast and AT&T rely on PG&E's transmission cables for Internet > access. As such, whenever a power shutdown occurs, many of us on the > Coastside are left without cable or Internet access. I shudder to think what > would happen during the Big One. Even when there are no power shutoffs, > however, Comcast appears to throttle our community on a regular basis This type of situation is what motivated people in Portland to set up their own mesh like network. If you had one person or two on the top of the hills, they could bridge the signals over to the East. https://portlandmeshnet.org/ <https://portlandmeshnet.org/> dss David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark [email protected] Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070
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