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Sure AT&T might have the money...

UVerse cabinets are expensive. They only make sense when you have a lot of customers within a wire-mile of the VRAD. Hence AT&T is forced to focus on urban areas if they want to pursue VDSL as their next-gen network.

Whereas fiber can go for miles, just like telephone lines, without amplification. So it makes a nice rural technology, which is why you don't see co-ops buying up VDSL equipment right and left.

Yeah its makes more sense putting them vrads in neighborhoods other then in the middle on nowhere. I was listening to one of the fcc meetings and they were talking about dsl repeaters that only cost 2 grand a piece and it would easily be used to bring broadband to unserved areas. Not really sure why AT&T wont do that so people can atleast have basic. Im only 80-2000 feet away from w/e and I think those repeaters would work just fine (hopefully). As for fiber, Its gona be very expensive no matter what. AT&T is too big and can do whatever the hell it wants. Right now they are pretty much say "no soup for you!" if you replace the soup with dsl.

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One day, High speed internet will be down my road! Willing to put DSLAM's or cable plants on my yard. Contact me AT&T or TWC to set up an appointment =]

The problem is that, while rural telcos will use the line booster/DSL repear equipment (every customer counts) AT&T doesn't see a need.

I'm curious as to how many customers the $2k per repeater serves though. I could buy a nice point to point wireless system with DOCSIS-class throughput for a fraction of that. Or pay for a fiber install for a semirural customer.

lol whoa, Its around $200 for repeaters. On third page of here.

»broadband.gov/docs/ws_deployment···in_1.pdf

That DSM looks interesting......
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One day, High speed internet will be down my road! Willing to put DSLAM's or cable plants on my yard. Contact me AT&T or TWC to set up an appointment =]

Nice find!

Theres a bunch more documents on the workshops previously held at broadband.gov

check it out.

Will do shortly. Once my email downloads over my 512k connection

lol u suck

My average latency is probably higher than yours, despite your having dialup. Just sayin'

what are you using?

»www.beecreek.net

For some reason they're working fine tonight.

Ask over in the Wireless Service Providers forum. As long as you have line of sight though a pair of Ubiquiti Bullet Ms with some decent antennas may do the job.

will do, hope its not expensive.....

If you want to go cheap, you can probably do everything for under $200. With the 802.11n stuff maybe closer to $300.

Then again, small price to pay to get off of dialup.

Do you know anything about "the bullet"? wonder if i can get that with an antenna and put it on top of the house and look for a wireless network......

Theoretically you could. It can be used as an access point, a client radio, etc. Just add an antenna.

Know any places to buy the bullet online?

»ubnt.com has a listing of resellers. Howeer Ubiquiti is rather infamous for supply chain problems. Seems everything is out of stock.

That said, I've been checking

»wisp-router.com
»wlanparts.com

For stock updates.