On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 10:15 -0500, Matt wrote: > > Oh boy are they digging themselves a big hole! > > > > All of the money is in the TV side of things and they are making it easier > > for people to watch TV via the web instead of via the cable co. On top of > > that they are talking about chewing up 4 TV channels PER CUSTOMER!!!! > > Wowsers. > > Not per custommer rather for the entire node. Currently one channel > is shared among many. In future 4 will be shared among many. > > > It's going to be amazing to watch where all of this is going to end up. > > > > This is actually great news for the smaller wisps out there. $200 50 meg > > connections. Very nice. I'd drop my $1000 10 meg connection for that! Or > > at the very least, buy a very high speed backup link. > > Me thinks it would be a very cold day in .... that they would give you > more then a small handfull of IP's with that or let you do something > like BGP.
Not to mention their AUP would almost definitely disallow reselling, they could disconnect you at a moments notice for that violation. Your $1000 10 meg connection is dedicated bandwidth, vs shared bandwidth from Comcast. And would you really want your customers depending on Comcast? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
