On 12 Jun 2001, MJ Ray wrote:
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
Me too,
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?
The prices have dropped to affordable for a group of dedicated hackers but are still not into consumer range yet. It is perfectly reasonable to share the high speed connection this way (again I know of a couple of people doing this with a Cable modem connection who live directly opposite each other), and how would the service provider know if you used NAT etc. (although it could prove a little tricky if somebody on your street had a certain liking for some of the more extreme content on the net and it was traced back to your account)
Shouldn't we just network ourselves anyway and sod the telcos? I seem to recall that some American towns have taken this route.
The trouble is getting a fat pipe in the first place usually requires that you either go directly to a Telco or your sp will have to go to a Telco for the bit of string that connects your house to the ISP. Is it possible to use HAM radio for net connections? there seems to be plenty of things in the Linux kernel for it.