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.
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.
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
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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?
Shouldn't we just network ourselves anyway and sod the telcos? I seem to recall that some American towns have taken this route.