Nick Frost wrote:
I think people using Comcast cable Internet, DSL, and FiOS will see
less of the problems typically associated with using wireless for
Internet connections when other wired alternatives are available.
Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that cooperative/municipal wireless is an
alternative to DSL or cable or FiOS, just that what matters for actual
performance isn't the theoretical fastest physical connect (e.g. of the
wire to the house or the backbone or of the seemingly-large 54mb/sec for
801.11g), it's the amount of traffic relative to the weakest link on the
path to what you want to connect to. Seems to me FiOS is going to be a
win when there are reliable high-bandwidth _complete paths_. For
example, for internet TV where the storage of television programs is
also provided by the FiOS ISP.
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