Alternative Wireless Broadband for your Neighborhood

An anonymous reader writes "TelephonyOnline reports Motorola has announced a new line of 5GHz *unlicensed* Wireless Broadband point to multi-point solution with a 2 mile range called Canopy. Pricing may allow neighborhoods to gang up and be their own ISP."

Comments

neighbor-ho?

[Anonymous Coward]

nice headline!

And, indeed use some help with the last mile towards our neighbor-ho!

(and the requisite)

Imagine a beowolf cluster of those!

Finally!

[Warmth Is Life]

My neighborho has had such an awful time communicating recently, she's always being late to appointments and such. The John Does are getting angrier and angrier.

Can't We All Just Get Along

[nemski]

Neighbors getting together for a neigborhood ISP! I'm still laughing. Jeez, here in the States, most neighbors don't even know each other's name, and, if they do, they probably can't stand each. Just take a look at the Relationship to Victim column in this Supplementary Homicide Report from Texas. I know this is a cynical attitude to take, and, luckily, this is not my situation. There's nothing better than standing on my neighbor's front lawn drinking can after can of cheap beer on a hot summer evening. But everyone on my block are AOLers. 8-(

Re:Is this really cost effective?

[Innomi]

> But what kind of freaky geek commune are you going to find that needs 1200 BB connections in a two mile radius?

Heaven?

Security

[GregAllen]

My favorite quote:

How secure are Internet transmissions with Canopy?

Radio communication, by it's very nature, is secure.

What the... ?!?!

Canopy systems offer additional advances security with over-the-air-DES encrypted communication. And, because Canopy systems provide 128 bit authentication, only authorized canopy customers can gain access to your Canopy system.

Ahhhh, marketing. When will they learn? And right next to the "hacking sattelites" article. :)