I, too, think this is a great idea. You'd obvisously have to work with the city on this, and it probably wouldn't work in most of the city because the per-person cost would be really high. However, a fiber network which has 802.11n endpoints (and perhaps endpoints inside of pre-wired apartment buildings) would reach a lot more people for not as much money.
You'd have to have a monthly open class on how to properly configure Bittorrent clients, though... ;) - Conor On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Michael Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > From the article: > > In their paper Homes with Tails (PDF), Columbia Law School professor > and NAF Fellow Tim Wu and Google Policy Analyst Derek Slater lay out a > proposal in which a community would establish a collectively-owned > fiber trunk cable that would lead to individually-owned lines into > people's homes. > > Columbia Law professor Tim Wu explained Friday the benefits of > encouraging privately owned fiber lines. > > Such an architecture would be "akin to a condominium complex--also a > radical form of property not too long ago," Slater said. > The fiber would lead an open point of presence (or PoP), at which > different service providers could set up equipment and compete for > residents' business. > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10105776-38.html > > I've been saying exactly this for months. I would love to actually see > a neighborhood come together to install homeowner purchased fiber with > a community trunk, anyone interested? > > -- > Michael Weinberg > President > Personal Telco Project, Inc. > A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit > > > > -- "(Information) consumes the attention of its recipients, hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." -- Herbert Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ptp-general" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ptp-general?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
