Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> Another option:
>> http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/satellite-internet-15mbps-no-matter-where-you-live-in-the-us/
>
> ...latency is about a half a second.
>
> They say that's not good enough for gaming... Rightly so... But
> they say f
Back in the late 90s there was a consumer fixed-wireless company here
in Boston, CAI Wireless. They used MMDS
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDS), now known as Broadband Radio
Service. CAI used frequencies in the 2GHz range and sent signals from
a few locations in the Boston area; the signal modula
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 04:54:13PM -0500, Tom Metro wrote:
> It makes you wonder what happened to fixed wireless around here? People
> were all excited about it back around 2000. I think there are still a
> few companies in the Boston area doing expensive fixed-wireless links
> for medium+ business
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 04:54:13PM -0500, Tom Metro wrote:
> > It makes you wonder what happened to fixed wireless around here? People
> > were all excited about it back around 2000. I think there are still a
> > few companies in the Boston area
I wrote:
> But that hadn't happened. Because [satellite Internet] isn't a viable
> option.
I forgot to mention one of the other technologies that adds further
evidence to satellite being inadequate - the various schemes to put
balloons, blimps, and drones at low elevations with radio relays.
On t
On 01/09/2013 04:54 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> Matthew Gillen wrote:
>>> Another option:
>>> http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/satellite-internet-15mbps-no-matter-where-you-live-in-the-us/
>> ...latency is about a half a second.
>>
>> They say that's not good enough f
