> I'm saying the same solution applies at a network level. The costs are > high because we still have the "heavy metal" in the loop. ie. The > Telco's. > > Replace the Telco's with a peer 2 peer network and the problem goes > away.
Where is your upstream going to come from? Someone, somewhere, somehow has to connect your peer to peer network to the real world (sic) Internet, and if you want flat rate at decent speed it's gong to cost real money which will make your cheap p2p solution not so cheap pretty fast. Worse than that, you're going to get a whole lot of technically savvy folks who have paid $150 for a wireless card and expect to get high speed access with large data volumes because they own part of the network... What a nightmare! Certainly the Telco's make good money out of commodity bandwidth, but I don't believe a realistic alternative is P2P wireless unless you can get a stunning uplink for naff all. My 2c worth.. 'gnight... :-).
