----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [H] -LO- 60 mile WIFI?
Gee, I wonder what that will do for security ??? I guess I won't be buying that 7db antenna for my Linksys after all. ;-)
Is anything being developed that will be affordable to the many who live in rural areas of the US? Around Southwest Georgia (which Albany is the hub of) there are only two games in town, AT&T DSL and Mediacom Cable. Satellite is far too expensive and it seems that Verizon etc. have not set up wireless Internet service as of yet.
My question may sound elementary if I was referring to what is available right now, but I am not. I concede that nothing economical is available right now. I live close to the Southeast city limits line of Albany, GA and DSL is still not available in my area. People a mile South of me who live South of the city limits have DSL. They sure pick and choose! That area is far more sparsely populated and economically not as good a market as my area, yet they have DSL. If my memory serves me correctly, this is my 5th year with cable Internet. With gaps that wide in our area, there is no hope for either DSL or cable Internet for decades.
In the 50's and beyond, television and radio stations went to great lengths to penetrate the rural areas. They did not simply stay with low signals and thrive off of the metro areas, as the phone company is doing with its DSL service. They did not pick and choose and deny people living within city limits service for 5+ years a valuable service, such as the phone company is doing with DSL.
Are we relegated for decades to dial-up (those of us who can not afford $100.00 per month for Satellite Internet) or is the Calvary coming soon in some form of wireless and at a rate we can afford?
Chuck
