No it's not...I didn't mean it that way. At least there are some mountains or something to wirelessly backhaul to another place. Where I am at it's just hills and hills and then some more hills. The hills usually run in an average of height of 100' - 300' of each other. Once you find a way to go 20 miles you hit another hill thats 300' higher than you were. So you either build a 1000' tower and hope for the best or you put up 10 towers to go 50 miles, either get VERY expensive.
Scottie ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Hammett To: WISPA General List Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 6:28 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Akamai / other caching servers Idaho isn't exactly a booming metropolis. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 9/2/2010 11:16 PM, Scottie Arnett wrote: Consider yourself lucky...in the REAL rural areas we pay over $1000/mth for 6 meg connections. Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: Travis Johnson To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:05 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Akamai / other caching servers I have two OC-3 connections (155Mbps) and one OC-12 connection (620Mbps)... and even at those levels, I still average $50/meg as my hard cost. I am selling 10Mbps x 10Mbps dedicated connections to businesses and schools, etc. for $500/month. Travis Microserv On 9/1/2010 5:34 PM, Mike wrote: I too would love to know that formula. I doubt if it would work in rural Tama County Iowa. Most businesses are agribusiness (i.e. farmers) and I already have most of them in my footprint. My biggest obstacle right now is finding cheap bandwidth. So even a statement that bandwidth is cheap right now does not apply to me. Friendly Regards, Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck Hogg Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 6:26 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Akamai / other caching servers I wish I had $500/mth business customers to sign up everyday! Regards, Chuck On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: Been there, done ALL of that. Not worth the headaches. Bandwidth is CHEAP now... time is still the most valuable thing in this business... I can spend hours messing, tweaking, fighting, adjusting, etc. a cache proxy, or in that same amount of time I can go install a business connection for $500/month and pay for ANY additional bandwidth it may save me. And I can do this every day. :) Travis Microserv On 9/1/2010 2:29 PM, Blake Covarrubias wrote: > On Sep 1, 2010, at 5:14 AM, Travis Johnson wrote: > >> Yes, but the bandwidth savings are not worth the headaches (another box or two to maintain, some sites don't like to be cached, customer support calls, web sites blocking a certain IP address because ALL the traffic from your network is coming from the cache server IP, etc.). > Its possible to prevent Squid from caching certain sites. Just create an ACL to deny caching them. Still too much to maintain? 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