The cost varies. I can get a 30meg bursable to 90 fiber connection in Downtown Ft. Myers, FL for around $1100/month. Getting it outside of Downtown and the cost is more than 3 times that. And there are many places where I could get bandwidth far cheaper than that (Tampa Miami).
If you buy water next to a river it will be cheap. Want water in the middle of the desert it's going to cost. It's not the cost of the water, it's the cost of moving it.
Video on demand (Netflix, Hulu, etc) uses 10 times the bandwidth of all other uses of the Internet combined, except maybe bit torrent (probably downloading videos anyway).
Video is one of the reasons we have so few CLEC and alternative ISPs willing to provide residential services here. Lots of companies wanting to sell to businesses (at least 6 CLECs/WISPs I can think of), we are the only one that will sell residential service. We have several individual residential accounts that use the same amount of bandwidth as an office with 50 computers. Business customer=$250/month, residential customer=$44.
People are using the increasingly using there Internet connection to get the same services they used to pay a Cable or satellite provider twice the money for. Many of the companies that provide these services are also the only ISPs most people can get service from (cable and phone companies). I am sure that in lots of board rooms they are talking about how Netflix and Hulu are eating their lunch and how they can stop it.
A simple Ubuntu or Debian 5 installation will fill the bill nicely. Webmin will take some of the sting out of having to learn the CLI. However any true IT professional should learn and use the CLI (Even newer MS servers can not be installed sans GUI). Once learned, it is quicker, simpler, more powerful way to do things than any other method I know.
Don't let the unfriendly reputation of NIX scare you away. I did 16 years ago when I started our ISP. Went entirely Windows NT servers. What a mistake! These things were constantly failing for various reasons. I began learning Linux and slowly replacing the failed servers with Linux systems and they just didn't fail unless some hardware failed (not nearly as frequent).
Life is much easer now and I spend very little time on server maintenance.
CSMA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access) makes this a problem. The way this works is the AP and clients listen before transmitting. If they hear another signal above a certain threshold they will try to cooperate by not transmitting until the channel is clear. It's like trying to hold a conversation with a room full of people talking.
5 GHz will probably not work as your client equipment is most likely not equipped with 5GHz capable radios. If they have mini PCI cards you could upgrade them but otherwise your stuck with 2.4GHz.
Some high end WIFI APs have a signal threshold setting. This tells the AP to ignore signals below the set level. This could help as it could be set to ignore the radios further away, allowing the radio to transmit even when other weaker signals are present. This would severely limit your APs range but could help.
Some games that use unsupported or undocumented hardware modes that will most likely not be supported by emulators which are written to spec. One example is an old game StarFlight. It used a undocumented color mode on the IBM CGA interface which officially did not have a mode that supported the color mode the game used which would only work with a composite monitor (RGB would not work, which is probably why IBM did not support it).
You will never get quite the same wow factor from running emulators.
Check out Monowall or Pfsense. I have used both in hotel/motel WIFI systems. The great thing about them is they can be run on an old computer you don't use any more. A PIII 500MHz with 128Megs ram is all that is needed.
They will do like any other business, use the service to try and protect their core business. You think they will settle for selling a service that earns around $10 per month and destroy their own business that earns around $70 per month? Me thinks not.
No one can personally test everything science tells us. But it is nice, and fun to test some of them. Will magnets float above a super conductor? Does Saturn have rings? Does a drop of water have tiny living things in it, do different elements give of light spectra?
These are things I can personally vouch for.
Religion doesn't test the truthfulness of anything. Questioning is discouraged or even outright banned. It is true we have to take some things science tells us as true only hopping someone else tests the truthfulness of the things that are said. Science is constantly testing. If new facts come to light that contradict a theory the theory is modified or even thrown out. Religion just throws out the facts in favor of it's dogma.
If the auto industry were adopt this then every 10 years or so we would have our driving controls changed.
"That steering wheel clutters the drivers space too much We decided to replace it with a much smaller joystick. Gets rid of the gas pedal too. Want to speed up or slow down. All this can be done with the joystick. Just push forward to accelerate and pull back to slow down. Brakes? now a trigger on the stick. Just think you feet won't have to do anything now!"
In the real world these things don't change because what we have works. A totally unnecessary change if you ask me. I don't mind making the UI more artful if you don't compromise it's functionality doing it, which this clearly does. Minimize and Maximize are so common a task in any windowing system that they deserve a one click solution, which the three buttons provide. Making the user do more work (mouse movements, more clicks) is a very bad idea.
In 1995 I started an ISP offering dialup and web hosting. We have moved on to High Speed wireless. We have a portable Class C address (204 block). We have for a couple of years been dealing with AOL and other large providers block our email. We don't have the resources to try and contact them every time someone has trouble sending them email. Lately I have taken to telling customer who want to send email to AOL and other large providers to get a gmail account. I explain that no matter how much SPAM comes from Gmail servers they will never get blocked. I explain they are "too big to block". War on small ISP mail servers, yea I would say so.
Most telcos (Cable or DSL) already collect these fees now. We don't have to charge for USF as a broadband (WISP) provider. They may force all broadband providers to collect these fess now. Won't have much effect on the vast majority of users.
USF is used to provide phone service at the same price for everyone anywhere even if it costs the phone company to provide the service. Anyone anywhere in rural area can get phone service at the same price. Does this mean the same will happen to broadband?
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No matter how much oil we find here it would be unwise to burn. Hot planet!
The cost varies. I can get a 30meg bursable to 90 fiber connection in Downtown Ft. Myers, FL for around $1100/month. Getting it outside of Downtown and the cost is more than 3 times that. And there are many places where I could get bandwidth far cheaper than that (Tampa Miami).
If you buy water next to a river it will be cheap. Want water in the middle of the desert it's going to cost. It's not the cost of the water, it's the cost of moving it.
Video on demand (Netflix, Hulu, etc) uses 10 times the bandwidth of all other uses of the Internet combined, except maybe bit torrent (probably downloading videos anyway).
Video is one of the reasons we have so few CLEC and alternative ISPs willing to provide residential services here. Lots of companies wanting to sell to businesses (at least 6 CLECs/WISPs I can think of), we are the only one that will sell residential service. We have several individual residential accounts that use the same amount of bandwidth as an office with 50 computers. Business customer=$250/month, residential customer=$44.
People are using the increasingly using there Internet connection to get the same services they used to pay a Cable or satellite provider twice the money for. Many of the companies that provide these services are also the only ISPs most people can get service from (cable and phone companies). I am sure that in lots of board rooms they are talking about how Netflix and Hulu are eating their lunch and how they can stop it.
This was the subject of my wife's thesis.
E-Ternally yours:
The case for the development of a reliable repository for the preservation of personal digital objects
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
A simple Ubuntu or Debian 5 installation will fill the bill nicely. Webmin will take some of the sting out of having to learn the CLI. However any true IT professional should learn and use the CLI (Even newer MS servers can not be installed sans GUI). Once learned, it is quicker, simpler, more powerful way to do things than any other method I know.
Don't let the unfriendly reputation of NIX scare you away. I did 16 years ago when I started our ISP. Went entirely Windows NT servers. What a mistake! These things were constantly failing for various reasons. I began learning Linux and slowly replacing the failed servers with Linux systems and they just didn't fail unless some hardware failed (not nearly as frequent).
Life is much easer now and I spend very little time on server maintenance.
Looks like you slashdotted yourself!
I am not sure what else to call companies that do anything they can to make a buck.
How about slamming? That evil?
Personally I think evil is a very good description.
My wife's Thesis was on this subject. Readers won't last long enough to make this useful.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
You can put a normal CD-R disk in Liquid Nitrogen without any damage. I have tested it myself. Although it warps into a dome shape until it warms.
CSMA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access) makes this a problem. The way this works is the AP and clients listen before transmitting. If they hear another signal above a certain threshold they will try to cooperate by not transmitting until the channel is clear. It's like trying to hold a conversation with a room full of people talking.
5 GHz will probably not work as your client equipment is most likely not equipped with 5GHz capable radios. If they have mini PCI cards you could upgrade them but otherwise your stuck with 2.4GHz.
Some high end WIFI APs have a signal threshold setting. This tells the AP to ignore signals below the set level. This could help as it could be set to ignore the radios further away, allowing the radio to transmit even when other weaker signals are present. This would severely limit your APs range but could help.
Eternally Yours, The case for the development of a reliable repository for the preservation of personal digital objects.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
Whipersnapper, GS? how an Apple II! Wolfenstein was first on and Apple II in 2D? Take that Whippersnapper!
Some games that use unsupported or undocumented hardware modes that will most likely not be supported by emulators which are written to spec. One example is an old game StarFlight. It used a undocumented color mode on the IBM CGA interface which officially did not have a mode that supported the color mode the game used which would only work with a composite monitor (RGB would not work, which is probably why IBM did not support it).
You will never get quite the same wow factor from running emulators.
If had not been for this I would never have heard of this.
Check out Monowall or Pfsense. I have used both in hotel/motel WIFI systems. The great thing about them is they can be run on an old computer you don't use any more. A PIII 500MHz with 128Megs ram is all that is needed.
They will do like any other business, use the service to try and protect their core business. You think they will settle for selling a service that earns around $10 per month and destroy their own business that earns around $70 per month? Me thinks not.
No one can personally test everything science tells us. But it is nice, and fun to test some of them. Will magnets float above a super conductor? Does Saturn have rings? Does a drop of water have tiny living things in it, do different elements give of light spectra?
These are things I can personally vouch for.
Religion doesn't test the truthfulness of anything. Questioning is discouraged or even outright banned. It is true we have to take some things science tells us as true only hopping someone else tests the truthfulness of the things that are said. Science is constantly testing. If new facts come to light that contradict a theory the theory is modified or even thrown out. Religion just throws out the facts in favor of it's dogma.
Science relies of faith? Me thinks not!
Look at Dspace. Open source, free, yada yada
My wife did her thesis on digital repositories (link below) I helped setup the server and it is still online.
http://alexandria.cyberstreet.com/
Here thesis
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf
Repost from my account, the earlier one posted without logging in seems to have been lost.
Climb roofs and towers, run cables mount radios, answer tech support phone calls...done it all.
Hard way to make a living, but very grateful customers. Two other WISPs in town could not make it.
No!....No!...No!
If the auto industry were adopt this then every 10 years or so we would have our driving controls changed.
"That steering wheel clutters the drivers space too much We decided to replace it with a much smaller joystick. Gets rid of the gas pedal too. Want to speed up or slow down. All this can be done with the joystick. Just push forward to accelerate and pull back to slow down. Brakes? now a trigger on the stick. Just think you feet won't have to do anything now!"
In the real world these things don't change because what we have works. A totally unnecessary change if you ask me. I don't mind making the UI more artful if you don't compromise it's functionality doing it, which this clearly does. Minimize and Maximize are so common a task in any windowing system that they deserve a one click solution, which the three buttons provide. Making the user do more work (mouse movements, more clicks) is a very bad idea.
Can't get a controller....speak for yourself I have a great controller!
In 1995 I started an ISP offering dialup and web hosting. We have moved on to High Speed wireless. We have a portable Class C address (204 block). We have for a couple of years been dealing with AOL and other large providers block our email. We don't have the resources to try and contact them every time someone has trouble sending them email. Lately I have taken to telling customer who want to send email to AOL and other large providers to get a gmail account. I explain that no matter how much SPAM comes from Gmail servers they will never get blocked. I explain they are "too big to block". War on small ISP mail servers, yea I would say so.
Most telcos (Cable or DSL) already collect these fees now. We don't have to charge for USF as a broadband (WISP) provider. They may force all broadband providers to collect these fess now. Won't have much effect on the vast majority of users.
USF is used to provide phone service at the same price for everyone anywhere even if it costs the phone company to provide the service. Anyone anywhere in rural area can get phone service at the same price. Does this mean the same will happen to broadband?
E-ternally Yours - The case for the development of a reliable repository for the preservation of personal digital objects
http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf