On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Russell Nelson wrote: > Okay, my ISP is dropping all their frame relay lines, including mine. > Cable Internet is not an option because they refuse to run cable TV > down my road. I'm 5.5 miles from the CO, so DSL won't work. > Point-to-point leased line is horrifically expensive. Satellite > Internet is a last option. I might even be able to afford fiber, but > that's a research project, not a reality. Reality is that I need to > get from my house either to my ISP or else to some place that has > Cable Internet. Reality is also that I lack line of sight to either.
T1s are really not that expansive these days, since Covad can provision them over HDSL and terminate them in special cards in their DSLAMS, rather than having to buy a HICAP port from P*B. We're not quite as far from the CO as you, but we're well outside normal DSL range; as I understand it HDSL isn't subject to the same distance limitations because they can use T1-style repeaters along the line path. At $500/mo (what we're paying Speakeasy), if you can find a neighbor or two within 802.11-shot to share the monthlies, you could get yourself a lot more reliable connection than a multihop wireless uplink for not too much $ .. Something to think about, at least. -- - Eric Sorenson - Explosive Networking - http://eric.explosive.net - _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
