UK Testing Wireless Broadband Via Airship

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 21, 2004 @02:41AM from the hope-no-one-shoots-this-idea-down dept.

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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Re:Out of the way UK communities by Lord_Dweomer · 2004-01-21 07:46 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Just out of curiosity. I'm a college student traveling to England (South Brighton) to visit my old roommate who's studying abroad there now over spring break. Any suggestions from the UK /.ers on cool info about it, or stereotypes of people from that area, cool things to do around there (clubs, pubs, etc)?

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