I'm not certain if this is an option around here, but when I was living near Berkeley in California some friends of mine had high-speed service via microwave antenna. I think it was Sprint offering the service, aimed at people up in the Berkeley hills who are too far from the DSLAM's to get DSL service. They'd install this microwave antenna pointed at some tower down at the base of the hills. Apparently when it worked it was pretty close to DSL speed.
But it suffers the same problem as satellite, latencies were quite noticeable. And it would always go out during any kind of electrical storm. --- Rex. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Lee Larson Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:24 PM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: High speed access newbie On Jan 27, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Michael Robertson wrote: > I think broadband from a satellite company like Dish is still pretty > expensive, last time I checked, around $120/month. The satellite connections are forever going to be impractical for most people, even if their prices are comparable. This is because the latency caused by the time to get the signals to and from a satellite orbiting 20,000 miles up is too long. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January | 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
