I guarantee you if you gave private spaceflight the information and the like that NASA has and a budget that they could get stuff done faster and more efficiently than NASA could. The only reasons why we don't have private spaceflight to the moon is because A) The taxpayer-funded R&D from various missions is not available to them B) Lack of initial capital C) Government restrictions.
That's ridiculous. Private companies don't have the money you are complaining about because there is no private demand for the research. In order to get a private company the same initial capital, R&D investment, and the general budget that NASA has, it would have to be paid for by the government. There already is an organization with exactly those features. It is called NASA.
People like you get away with complaining about the inefficiencies of government programs because there is no bottom line to compare it to. You pretend that if NASA had been chartered a little differently and was a government contractor (which is what they would be if the government paid for their otherwise unfunded trips beyond earth orbit) rather than a government department that somehow things would be different, and none of us can give you hard numbers to prove you wrong because your pretend organization doesn't exist. Only this time, I know your pretend organization isn't any more efficient because it has the exact forces pulling on it to produce results as the government entity, and will therefore behave in the exact same way.
It actually uses CSMA/CA instead of CSMA/CD, which means they don't just listen for open air and transmit, they actually request permission from the access point to transmit and it gives a go ahead, which all clients hear and know not to step on even if they can't see the transmitter. The problem in a WISP environment is that you can have 100+ clients to a single access point, at which point the requests for transmit time get so dense that they themselves start colliding frequently. It isn't a problem of geography so much as number of subscribers.
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I guarantee you if you gave private spaceflight the information and the like that NASA has and a budget that they could get stuff done faster and more efficiently than NASA could. The only reasons why we don't have private spaceflight to the moon is because A) The taxpayer-funded R&D from various missions is not available to them B) Lack of initial capital C) Government restrictions.
That's ridiculous. Private companies don't have the money you are complaining about because there is no private demand for the research. In order to get a private company the same initial capital, R&D investment, and the general budget that NASA has, it would have to be paid for by the government. There already is an organization with exactly those features. It is called NASA. People like you get away with complaining about the inefficiencies of government programs because there is no bottom line to compare it to. You pretend that if NASA had been chartered a little differently and was a government contractor (which is what they would be if the government paid for their otherwise unfunded trips beyond earth orbit) rather than a government department that somehow things would be different, and none of us can give you hard numbers to prove you wrong because your pretend organization doesn't exist. Only this time, I know your pretend organization isn't any more efficient because it has the exact forces pulling on it to produce results as the government entity, and will therefore behave in the exact same way.
It actually uses CSMA/CA instead of CSMA/CD, which means they don't just listen for open air and transmit, they actually request permission from the access point to transmit and it gives a go ahead, which all clients hear and know not to step on even if they can't see the transmitter. The problem in a WISP environment is that you can have 100+ clients to a single access point, at which point the requests for transmit time get so dense that they themselves start colliding frequently. It isn't a problem of geography so much as number of subscribers.