I live in a rural area and we've had this kind of service for a couple months now. Our service is advertised as 256Kb down/64Kb up, though we have been able to get faster speeds under certain conditions. And it uses a standard cable modem.
We live about 20 miles away from our ISP, so it has good range potential, though admittedly we got lucky because we live on a big hill... If we lived in a valley a mile closer we wouldn't have been able to get it.
It's a good service, especially considering our only options here are "wireless cable", and crappy dialup service through the phone company.
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The "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these" has already been done...
So, all that's left is "I wonder if these can run Linux"
Aww... Damn they do, never mind.
BTW, Netscape 4.08 doesn't suck....
It blows.
Use Mozilla.
We live about 20 miles away from our ISP, so it has good range potential, though admittedly we got lucky because we live on a big hill... If we lived in a valley a mile closer we wouldn't have been able to get it.
It's a good service, especially considering our only options here are "wireless cable", and crappy dialup service through the phone company.
What's next? Linux for Gameboy Advance?