Yeah, there's not much in Maine. It's not between anywhere big on the Internet, so there's no need for the cables to go through there.
It is "only" 50% longer than Matt Larsen did 5 - 10 years ago. I think Travis may even have single links further than that. (This last bit meant jokingly.) ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "jp" <j...@saucer.midcoast.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:56 AM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:42:09AM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: >> >> As Matt Larsen has been talking about, he built out 125 miles of backhaul >> to >> connect his network back to civilization. Others have even further to >> go. >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett > > Looks like we'd have to go across three states to get to a Cogent > facility. Five states to get to Hurricane Electric. > > Colocation at their datacenter would be a pittance compared to the > backhaul costs. > > -- > /* > Jason Philbrook | Midcoast Internet Solutions - Wireless and DSL > KB1IOJ | Broadband Internet Access, Dialup, and Hosting > http://f64.nu/ | for Midcoast Maine http://www.midcoast.com/ > */ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
