#include <disclaimer.h> --- MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com writes:
BT has the technologie and ability to role out ADSL to everyone,
except
it costs so much to do. OFTEL wont let us loss lead the excersise
to
allow us to get lots of penetration into the market. [...]
I don't think you should use "us" here. You are not allowed to speak on the behemoth's behalf.
Sorry, The views are mine and not my employers. I am so used to talking about this at work I refer to us to much.
My opinion is that BT is solely interested in screwing as much money as possible out of the current technologies (eg ISDN) before having to discount them when they introduce the superior DSL systems. If BT had our interests at heart, they would be planning to do residential DSL through the normal connectors, which I think is now possible, and wouldn't require the engineer to come and rip holes in my wall again.
BT is a corporation and as such has the mission of screwing money from people, and while people are still gullable enought to be screwed, they will continue screwing, why else do we get charged so much for things in this country. If you want it and you don't want to pay the expensive price, don't. They will drop the price to get the uptake. Its the way things work. Unfortunatly in this country we don't, we just sit by happily and get screwed. Why do you think people like the sales? cos they get to pay a more sensible price for things, drop the price sell more, there will come a point where the maths works out and you make more money, but try explaining this to a corporation!
Find a place with an always on connection (i.e. UEA) and then put a 802.11b base station with highpower antenna up on the roof,
directed at [...]
What prices are wireless networking equipment now? Is it getting to the point where sharing a single higher speed connection among a street is an economic reality? How would the service provider view this?
Coming down. A PCI card is about �150 plus an antenna at about �20. This will work as one end of a link (you will need two ends) it is coming down alot and is starting to become economical for even your normal LAN.
Shouldn't we just network ourselves anyway and sod the telcos? I seem to recall that some American towns have taken this route.
Hear hear, well spoken bruce. A group in ipswich considered building the SWAN, Suffok Wireless area network, we just need more people to make it worth while.
Thanks
D
-- MJR
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