I use old laptops connected to my HD TVs instead of renting expensive Cable Compay DVRs for all the TVs in the house. I bought a $100 HAVA Platinum HD video streamer and connected it to my HD DVR cable box. I load the client software on old WIFI equipped laptops and hook them up to my other HD TVs. Add a wireless laptop and mouse (I like the LogiTech's doNovo mini although it's a bit expensive at abound $120) and you can lie in bed and watch the DVR or surf the web. My daughter loves it for YouTubing with her friends when they come over, and I love it because it sticks it to the cable company.
I agree witht the basic concept. Fiber and big bandwidth to every home and business ASAP would secure our global economic dominance for the next 50 years. However, he is missing out on a major source of savings to help pay for the infrastructure. Reducing the need to build new highways could be a major savings that could subsidize all or most of the cost. If we could take 20% of the traffic off our existing highway system by telecommuting (Hey, let's all work one day a week at home!), we would't need new roads. We would just have to maintain what we have. All the new road funding should more than pay for universal fiber access.
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I use old laptops connected to my HD TVs instead of renting expensive Cable Compay DVRs for all the TVs in the house. I bought a $100 HAVA Platinum HD video streamer and connected it to my HD DVR cable box. I load the client software on old WIFI equipped laptops and hook them up to my other HD TVs. Add a wireless laptop and mouse (I like the LogiTech's doNovo mini although it's a bit expensive at abound $120) and you can lie in bed and watch the DVR or surf the web. My daughter loves it for YouTubing with her friends when they come over, and I love it because it sticks it to the cable company.
Just use a cheap parabolic antenna and leach from afar. See: http://www.stanford.edu/~jstockdl/tmp/usbwifi.orco n.net.nz/
I agree witht the basic concept. Fiber and big bandwidth to every home and business ASAP would secure our global economic dominance for the next 50 years. However, he is missing out on a major source of savings to help pay for the infrastructure. Reducing the need to build new highways could be a major savings that could subsidize all or most of the cost. If we could take 20% of the traffic off our existing highway system by telecommuting (Hey, let's all work one day a week at home!), we would't need new roads. We would just have to maintain what we have. All the new road funding should more than pay for universal fiber access.