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Posted on July 21, 2004 at 22:26:14
Daveslater
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 Thought this subject might interest you guys.
I live in a village in the UK where we have had to conduct a vigorous campaign and get over 500 sign ups on an exchange with only 1900 subscribers before BT would deign to supply us with ADSL broadband. Start date is 18th August. An outlying hamlet is too far from the exchange for ADSL to reach so we are implementing a point to point line of site wireless link to the remote hamlet with wireless distribution once its arrived. Its a great solution to overcome this problem plus its free open source software to generate routers. More info at www.locustworld.com

Thanks for a great on line community

 

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I've always wondered, posted on July 31, 2004 at 15:22:50
James L
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Location: Colorado
Joined: November 6, 2002
 why more small towns and villages don't lay their own copper wiring and infrastructure for home and business broadband within their communities.

Doing wireless is no doubt cheaper, but it's not as reliable, nor potentially as fast. Seems to me that in almost any underserved community that doesn't have DSL or cable broadband the investment in cabling and distribution point(s) would be reaped many times over in attracting information professionals and businesses to the area.

I even wonder why it's not done in larger towns. Here in my small city of 125,000 we have both DSL and cable. The wiring for both, though, is a monopoly. The phone company owns the telephone lines and the one local cable company owns the TV cable. The phone company is mandated by law to let other DSL providers use the phone wiring to offer their DSL upstream connections to consumers, but the phone company charges the customer (or the third-party DSL provider) an outrageous fee to do so. So far, the cable conglomerates have fended off similar legislation that would force them to share their networks. As such, both DSL and cable broadband are pretty expensive.

A community that installed, maintained and sold access to cabling to the home would offer a fantastic service and make broadband access much more competitive and affordable. This would be an incredible incentive to bring high tech businesses and well educated residents into the area.

 

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