Yes, technically wireless can do wonders. But when, and at what price? You are goners if you can't keep up with cable and DSL (and other fiber providers)
Kirkland are not smalltown folks. We've been there and done that. You're describing an architecture of very expensive hubs that furthermore require high skill labor, and cannot play in the race, of high volume, high competition consumer chipsets like WiFi. There are fibers *all over the place* on Seattle Eastside, and the owners of the fiber could easily, today, feed many broadband connections with something like Nokia rooftop, or anything else that supports clusters of users. What we need is a $100 rooftop device and a layer of plain ol' routers to aggregaet the traffic on to all these empty fibers. By the time you get your high-engineering hubs built the chip manufacturers will be selling the same power in boxes at compUSA, that is, if its not protected by police powers (either proprietary code, or FCC regulation, or whatnot,) Todd -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
