Wireless along the Maine Coast

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 12, 2001 @07:18PM from the walking-along-the-beach dept.

eggboard writes: "The coast of Maine started getting lit up by wireless over long distance back in 1997. Now hundreds of users, some of them dozens of miles from the connecting ISP's HQ, use plain old 802.11, 802.11b's predecessor, to hit nearly 2 Mbps of throughput. Cable Internet is broken out there; DSL unreachable; ISDN expensive. Other communities are also adopting tower-based point-to-point, bridge and repeater wireless to bring broadband to rural and small towns. Is this the way to drag lesser-populated areas into the modern economy, and promote deurbanization?"

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Infidels! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-12 20:09 · Score: -1, Troll

First Post for Osama!
Imagine... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-12 20:43 · Score: -1, Troll

Can you imagine an anthrax spore of these?
Airport? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-12 20:52 · Score: -1, Troll

Leave it to a boy-touching queer man to use a MAC!
Root Access by dirtyhippie · 2001-10-12 21:08 · Score: -1, Troll

Oh yeah, gotta have root. Makes connection speeds sooooooo much faster. Even root on my 486 with a 14.4k modem burns shit up (root is when I'm in c:\ at the dos prompt, right?)