[TriLUG] OT: solar wireless mesh router

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

"In this day and age I think that when new communities are constructed,
fiber should be going to each house right next to the power, water, and
sewage lines."

You hit that one on the nail! Of course, it's a lot cheaper to run it
now, than to tear up lawns to lay it later. My house is nearing
completion in Eagle Ridge, and I'm almost positive that there's no
fiber. However, there ARE green boxes on every block, and fiber runs to
those (I've seen it exposed a few times and had to call it in). That
would make it much easier to run fiber from the DSLAM (if that's what it
is) right to your doorstep.

I've been thinking ....about things along this line. Even something if
everyone combined their wifi router, and made a cluster so to speak...
would be mind boggling. Something along the lines of what the FatPipe
systems do.

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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: solar wireless mesh router

Tim Jowers wrote:
>    I'm with you. I have a good rooftop (HOA withstanding) with 
> excellent coverage of about 100 homes. I live off of Lake Pine in 
> Kildaire Farm. Maybe we can find enough people to justify a T1 
> somewhere and roll this out legally. I guess the legal problems are 
> what killed boingo although I never followed them closely. What
prototocol? 802.11n?

A T1 only provides 1.54Mbps.  The cost for this is going to be hundreds
of dollars per month.  Once you start splitting it, it's so slow by
modern standards it can barely be called "broadband" service.

Even a T3 spreads thin very quickly these days.

To really make a go of it will require serious capital and a commitment
to providing a compelling alternative to the big broadband ISP's.

I believe the model for the future is not to own both the last mile
network and the internet connection at the same time.  Establish a very
fast last-mile network, and allow ISP's to offer exit points from it.
The last mile network should not have exclusive arrangements with ISP's.

In this day and age I think that when new communities are constructed,
fiber should be going to each house right next to the power, water, and
sewage lines.

Allowing the ISP to own the last mile is stifling competition.  The two
services need to be divorced before we will see major leaps forward.
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