Eastern Colorado Ryan On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Mike Hammett <wispawirel...@ics-il.net>wrote:
> Where is your neck of the woods? > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: <rgher...@gmail.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 11:47 AM > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cost of bandwidth > > > In my neck of the woods there is no dark fiber for rent, and I'm 185 miles >> from the nearest fiber facility. >> We have to backhaul a DS3 nearly 50 miles, then cross connect it into >> Qwest >> land from CenturyTel land into the qwest ATM cloud. >> THEN I have a fat UBR pipe to a Tier 2. I have no other way. FYI bandwidth >> is well over 300 a meg for me. I'd love a microwave shot >> to somewhere but towers are few in this area and I have a few demanding >> SLA >> grade customers on local links here to depend on a microwave shot. >> >> Ryan >> >> On Mar 21, 2009 10:35am, RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Co$t! 35 miles as a crow flys to the nearest fiber facility. Worse yet, >>> only >>> >> >> one major provider there and they are expensive. -RickG >>> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Harold Bledsoe >>> hbled...@deliberant.net>wrote: >>> >> >> >> >> > Those of you that are paying >$50/Mbps, what is keeping you from >>> >> >> > building your own backhaul to cheaper bandwidth (wireless, dark fiber, >>> >> >> > etc.)? It seems to me that this would be a major consideration in the >>> >> >> > business plan as this is a big MRC. Don't wait for someone to bring you >>> >> >> > cheap bandwidth...go get it! :-) >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> > -Hal >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> > >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> >> > WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> >> >> > http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> > >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> >> >> > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> >> >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> >> >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >> >> >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> >> >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >> >> >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
