Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Broadband besides DSL or cable

["Daniel Nowlin" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Hey do you think we could declare it a religious commune?  Something like
'The divine BIT'.  This way we could get tax breaks on the land, housing and
ALL computer equipment.

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From: "Spurling, Shannon " <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Broadband besides DSL or cable


> Great! A commune of geeks! How would you get their lazy asses to grow the
> food!!? :-)
> ROTFLMAO! They would starve to death! :-) Kind of the other extreme from
an
> Amish community, right?
>
>
> Shannon Spurling
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 9:05 AM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Broadband besides DSL or cable
>
>
> > Yeah, there are all kinds of neat things out there, but are they offered
> or
> > practical? Answer is usually no. If it's not used a whole lot, it's
going
> to
> > be expensive, or not offered. I bet IDSL is not offered. Took long
enough
> to
> > get them to do ADSL, and that's only because there was a large market.
> Once
> > you get outside of town, the number of people per square mile who want a
> > service like this, or will pay for it, drop off dramatically. Also, to
> > support a new technology takes training and people. They aren't going to
> > throw something new out there unless it's worth their while, and verizon
> has
> > to provide and support it since they are the wire carrier.
> > I was looking into this since I am going to be moving soon, and it looks
> > like it's going to be well outside city limits. I don't think they have
> > cable out there, but I do want to keep my AT&T cable modem. Just to be
> sure
> > I called AT&T and they said that signal strength was not up to it yet.
I'm
> > hoping the yet part means it will be there in the next couple of months
> :-)
> > The other options would be bonded 56K modems. It would involve the cost
of
> > two modem lines, and you can get the bonded modems for around $100. The
> last
> > option that is being released soon, is the 2 way Direct PC system. It
> > involves a 36inch two way satellite system that has to be professionally
> > installed ( the FCC requires it), and a little receiver box that has a
USB
> > connection. I hear you can hack to box to get a linux compatible
Ethernet
> > connection. There is also quite a bit of latency involved because of the
> > satellite system's inherent limitations. Throughput is supposed to be
> really
> > good ( on par with a cable modem), but the responses to requests takes a
> > little while. Biggest problem is that the system run around $700, and
then
> > you pay $70 a month for the service. Kind of steep. Not horribly
> > unreasonable, but kind of steep.
>
> I think my general mental solution was to have one or more of these sats
> connecting my neighborhood to the Net and to import a bunch of geek
> friends to share my land (your yurt's would work) and run wireless
> networking all over lcoally and use that to play groovy Net games etc.
>
> If you can't bring yourself to the Internet bring the Internet to you. :)
>
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