"Richard Clark"
If you want to share the same resource
with 33 times more customers, you have
to accept 3% the bandwidth.

Excellent point.

Of course, to start, they could put up one site and let it evolve from
there. 56Mbps / 33 is still 1.7 Mbps (perfectly acceptable). Even 333
clients is still much better than dial-up. Also, those 333 clients probably
have other things to do beside 100% downloading music and p0rn, and so you
can add a huge (or 1/huge) duty-cycle factor (worse at prime time). In other
words, one 56Mbps access point is capable of serving MANY clients (a
wireless MAN). The future dividing into smaller cells is a nice bonus that
can be paid for with cash already earned from the first installation. Thus
Wi-Max is going to be ~huge~ because the finances are incredibly good (waaay
better than cell phone since the sites are going to be sooooooo much
cheaper, one or two orders of magnitude cheaper, a guess).

BTW, if the 'last mile' is such a big problem, then how come the Cable TV
companies are so damn rich? Duh. Run the damn optical fibres and 'clean up'
the whole market for fixed access. Nothing beats optical (so far).

Didja see the 'interesting tidbit' about non-HF 'BPL' ? Sounds much nicer
than the HF-crap system.

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:57:11 -0300, "Barb McBarb"
wrote:

BTW, if the 'last mile' is such a big problem, then how come the Cable TV
companies are so damn rich?

Hi Barb,

If they are so damn rich (arguable proposition given how many times
mine has been traded), it was from an investment now 20 years old.

If someone took the plunge and hooked fiber optic to every house in
the city, I am sure they would be damn rich in 20 years too. Problem
is with regulation. It existed then, it doesn't now.

BOTH the democrats AND the republicans walked away from the problem 6
years ago to leave it up to "market forces." This was like tossing
money at street bums to help them sober up. The corporate welfare
state stumbled along content with the status quo, happy to sew up
their constituencies knowing competition had a huge energy well they
had to climb out of to simple enter the market.

However, this also reveals the poverty that exists in the minds of
these welfare queens. They think in terms of their own solutions -
wire to the house (or fiber optic to the house). Not looking any
further than their own preconceived failure, they presume everyone
else will fail similarly. This dinosaur mentality reveals itself in
the BPL "wiring" opportunity. RF will eclipse their Jurassic ideas
and they will demand an "even playing ground" (familiar cry of the
entitlement addict) as the mammals gnawing on their ankle bones start
to work on their haunches.

We need to outsource more boardroom jobs to those with quicker minds
willing to actually work harder to be more productive for less.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

We need to outsource more boardroom jobs to those with quicker minds
willing to actually work harder to be more productive for less.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC


Hi Richard,

What's YOUR job:-)?

73,
Chip N1IR