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Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jim Patient Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 8:07 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Carrier pigeons faster then rural wierless? Crap, one of the hillbillies in the trailer park shot my best low latency pigeon. Now they got free dinner and a movie;-) Jim Patient Cell: 314-565-6863 Desk: 636-692-4200 YIM: jeffcosoho www.wlan1.com www.linktechs.net www.wifimidwest.com On 9/22/2010 6:51 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > Totally agree. > >> When your Internet has to go 22,300 miles, at best, straight up for its >> first hop even the speed of light begins to feel slow. > Speed of light = 186k miles per second. Light can travel that 22,300 > miles 8.5 times in one second. That's back and forth 4 times in the > time you blink. > >> The median advertised download speed is 7Mbps. The reality is just over >> 4Mbps. > Because Farmville needs that last 3Mbps. You can watch Netflix at > full definition at those speeds. A hotel asked what their bandwidth > was and we figured it to be just about 4Mbps - a hotel with dozens or > hundreds of people. > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Steve Barnes<st...@pcswin.com> wrote: >> Talk about trash articles. This was terrible. I hope next time they do one >> of these test they let us know so we can release a few hawks and a couple of >> guys with 12 gauge shot guns. Not to mention you ever tried to copy 300gb >> files from one computer to another over a standard 10/100 network. Pigeons >> would come close on that one as well. Why did he stop with 10 pigeons why >> not 100 then he could gripe about fiber being slow as well. Sheesh!!!! >> >> Steve Barnes >> RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] >> On Behalf Of John Thomas >> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 6:43 PM >> To: wireless@wispa.org >> Subject: [WISPA] Carrier pigeons faster then rural wierless? >> >> >> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/it-8217s-official-carrier-pigeon >> s-are-faster-than-rural-internet/173?tag=nl.e539 >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----------- >> 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
