UK Testing Wireless Broadband Via Airship

fruey writes "A team from York University, UK are about to test high altitude platforms, according to this article, as a way of bringing high-speed internet services to computer users in remote areas out of reach of broadband. They plan to use solar powered engines to keep the aerial platforms in position. The Capanina site have some more information about this stratospheric broadband experiment. More technical stuff can be found at the York University website This technology could deliver broadband communications at data rates up to 120Mbit/s! Screw cable and xDSL, when will stratospheric be available near me?"

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Out of the way UK communities

[GonzoDave]

UK are about to test high altitude platforms, according to this article, as a way of bringing high-speed internet services to computer users in remote areas out of reach of broadband

I assume this means backwards places like the Fens, Channel Islands, Welsh valleys and Liverpool. It might help to teach them what a computer and electricity are for first.

Re:Out of the way UK communities

[ozbon]

Well, Liverpool certainly knows what computers are. They're the high-value items that thieving little sods can use to buy drugs.

Tech support response

[Wattsman]

"Why is my net connection down?"
"The router crashed."
"Can't you reboot it or something."
"No, I mean it literally crashed. Some bird flew into it and the sucker fell from the sky. We'll be getting a replacement up in an hour or so."

Aerial Platforms - Safe?

[CowboyBob500]

It might bring a whole new meaning to "my network's gone down"

Bob