| Mobile Broadband Sprint has mobile broadband/EVDO in Shutesbury and Leverett.
Mobile broadband is the way to go if 1-2Mbps is good enough for you. When WiMAX comes, wired broadband will be so last century, except for those who want high bandwidth.
I dumped my cable modem earlier this year for EVDO. |
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St Thomas, VI | key word: sprint |
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Ahrenl
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North Andover, MA | reply to ignatiuskc
Leverett is all mountains, there's no way you get good signal in 75% of it. Many of the roads aren't even paved. There's one grocery/co-op store off of a treacherous mountain dirt road, where you have to pull over for opposite traffic. The Post-office, town-hall, crafts store, and church all share the same building in the "town center".
They're partly to blame for no Comcast though, as I believe they kept them out like 10 years ago. I lived there for a year when I was in college. We were lucky enough to be able to get a dish, although they had to come and install a giant pole in the yard to get it to work. We had no internet, because I refused to use dial-up at the time. (97-98') |
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 John GaltForward, MarchPremium
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Coverage of the MA area |
said by Ahrenl:Leverett is all mountains, there's no way you get good signal in 75% of it. That simply isn't true.
Properly placed access points could blanket the area, providing service to virtually the entire area.
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Ahrenl
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North Andover, MA | I guess if you want to build one tower for each resident. You'll also notice that there are only like two roads on the map. For $100's of millions I guess you can do almost anything. :shrug: |
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John GaltForward, MarchPremium
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kudos:3 | said by Ahrenl:I guess if you want to build one tower for each resident. You'll also notice that there are only like two roads on the map. For $100's of millions I guess you can do almost anything. :shrug: Not necessary at all. You know, this is being done in many places in the U.S. that have more trees than this.
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Ahrenl
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North Andover, MA | Yes, but for 1,663 people? I mean, just in your diagram you have 5 towers, all of which would have to have access roads built. How much would that cost? I've climbed to the top of a number of those hills, they're very wide at the top, so placing a tower in the middle would not cover the valleys (where everyone lives, and where the road(s) is/are. I'm sure it CAN be done, but how many centuries would it take to recoup that investment?
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John GaltForward, MarchPremium
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1 edit | Actually, a plan has already been developed for all of Western Massachusetts.
It is circulating at the State government level...
EDIT: Resize
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