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Re: Cox and wireless
Doc, maybe it's time to band together with a bunch of neighbors, find a good high point that you can all see, and install a reliable old T1 line or frame relay T1? You can then install some point-to-point sectional antennas and get reliable service. In rural areas, like the coast of Maine and some towns in New Zealand, they're using this for long-haul: 10 to 30 miles, just like you'd normally use copper. But it's also a pretty decent reality for cities without a density of tall buildings. Better yet, convince a local ISP to start it up. The startup costs can be high, in the thousands, but you would wind up with ostensibly reliable service. The cable thing I never believed in. The cable companies kept saying, you'll always have enough bandwidth (until we decided to throttle it to 128 kbps upstream rather than just do intelligent filtering to block unauthorized servers); we can add channels to add bandwidth (yeah, right, like they don't fight to their last breath to preserve the revenue or viewership from channels even on digital cable systems); even if your neighbors all jump on board, we'll have bandwidth (already disproven); it's secure (wrong from the start); we run operations 24x7, so you won't experience that phone company style downtime (yeah, right). My DSL service at home and at work has functioned at about 99.999% uptime. At home, a year or so ago, I'd suffer from day-long outages. They eventually solved that. I was down for a few days in winter this year because of a card failure at the central office that was tricky to troubleshoot (it showed me as up, but data wouldn't transmit). Work DSL has been virtually 100% uptime since mid-1999. There are responses to this message:
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