Hmm. Another suggestion about how to get off copper. How feasible is this?
http://voxilla.com/soapvox/2007/06/08/covad-goes-the-last-mile-219 <snip> When youre the only national DSL network in the U.S. what do you do for your next act? You disintermediate the copper wire. In plain English, you take it out of the equation. And the way you take it out is with fixed WiMax technology. Thats the idea right now at Covad, according to Director of Marketing Simon McIver. The SMB market is ripe for a new connection, according to McIver. Small and mid-size businesses are waking up to the fact that consumer broadband services dont cut it for business applications like POS systems, Web servers, or even office email. The problem with cable and DSL is that its a shared line. That means that things may work smoothly at 9:00 a.m. when kids are in school, but slow down at 3:00 p.m. when they get out and hit the MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games). A traditional solution is a good old fashioned T1 line with 1.5 megabytes locked in, explains McIver. Its consistent, its always there. But for small businesses, its a prohibitively costly solution. Thats where fixed WiMax comes in. Unlike WiFi, WiMax can deliver the assured bandwidth and higher reliability of a T1 with a lot less infrastructure. WiMax also has wider range and better coverage than WiFi especially indoors. </snip> -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
