The objection to something like Exede satellite (other than a few areas with no spot beams) is if I stream more than a couple movies per week, I go over my data cap unless I watch in the middle of the night.
Can you really say TVWS solves that problem? Especially since satellite will probably continue to evolve and push up their data caps? Personally, I don't see what's so terrible about setting the DVR on your sat TV or using the original Netflix DVD by mail service, if you want to live in the middle of nowhere. But obviously I'm out of step with the times. To quote Louis CK, "everything's amazing, nobody's happy". TVWS should be fine, but nobody's going to be happy with it, now that the Internet has been subverted to be the cheap entertainment superhighway. (Did Doug Clark trademark that term?) -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 10:39 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] i need an adult On 10/13/16 08:11, Ken Hohhof wrote: > I got a WISPAPALOOZA related email from a TVWS vendor I’d never heard > of before. Still didn’t pique my interest. I think TVWS is now at > best a niche solution, maybe for monitoring “things” in remote areas. I see it as something like if your options for internet are TVWS, satellite, or nothing. But then again people are testing LTE gear at low signals with low throughput and accept it because LTE. ~Seth
