davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC
 ·Comporium
1 edit | They're not trying to compete w/ Comcast, et. al
When you look at something like this remember... They're going places where the other providers have forsaken.
You can cry, complain and whine about loading 50-100 people on a single T1. You can fuss about it only being 1.5mbps. But when you have no other options, you'll gladly sign up. Remember, if you're out of range from the CO or not in a neighborhood where the cable company provides cable modem service, you're screwed.
Compared to satellite, this sort of service is a godsend to the people they have as customers. I lived in the Jackson, MS area for 5 years in one of those forsaken areas. No cable modem, no DSL. I paid out the butt for ISDN. The irony was that our apartment complex had FIBER to each complex from Bellsouth. But the ONU's Bellsouth had used in the installation back then could only handle POTS, ISDN or a single T1 per ONU. There was no DSL or ethernet card available for them. So we were stuck with no other choices. And the cable company was Susquehanha (sp?) [aka SusCom] Communications. They only offered 1-way cable modem service and that was iffy. For 3 years they kept announcing that "2-way cable modems are coming soon". But their cable plant was so crappy that it wasn't possible.
Now why they're hosting their email and such at the tower, I have no clue. It would have been much cheaper and more reliable to buy space at a web hosting company somewhere. Oh well.
PS... Remember, most wireless ISPs in Mississippi and other places in the south have a hard time using 2.4ghz equipment due to pine trees (the pine needle absorption/multipath effect). So if you're planning to do this around pine, you'll want 900mhz or 5ghz. |
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