Thats a great idea, but each little community net would need to have some type of beafy wired or fiber backbone, and I am not aware of wirless equipment that would handle that, maybe after a few years of WIMax stuff will be more readily available and affordable.
I live in Philly, where we have a hughe number of communities made up of attached row homes, would be easy to make backbones on the attached segments, but would need to "hop" over streets etc...
I wonder if the langauge of these bills would prohibit non profit organizations from forming community networks. If not then it could be possible to form non profits for the sole purpose of providing broadband. Start suggesting this at your local community meetings!
No, there is a distance limitation, but it is working at my nieghbors house through the power meters, his and mine. My understanding is that as long as you are served by the same transformer you are only limmitted by distance. My neighbor is acheiving 4.58 Mbs at last check, so that why I would repeat the ethernet wit a cheap switch and send it to the next neighbor with another pair of these devices. I would also need to mention that I live in a row home, so the length of actual power line is that of my outlet to my panel, up the main, down my neighbors main etccc, about 100 feet or less. The manufacturers statment about it working in your house only has been proven not accurate. I guess thats why there is 56bit encryption.
Why would I go wireless to a home right next to me if a pair of cheap Powerline devices would do the same for less money and a potential throughput of 14Mps? I would go wireless to go over a public street or an un cooperative neighbor. Also the expense of weather proofing WAPS and external antennas etc...
Since I didn't want to take up to many bytes, I left out an idea of taking over the coax cable from the cable company inside an apartment building (in most cases cable after the tap in a building is property of building owner) and create a cable modem network as well as an SMATV system, using cisco broadband equipment, multiple sat receivers and RF modulators, one per channel. The only problem their is the cost of the cisco equipment. So I wonder if anyone has succesfully used old cable modems, say one at a Linux box serving DHCP, DNS gateway etc.. and the end users with standard DOCSIS cable modems?
Fiber is still to expensive to install.
The SLA would be the main reason, but also the fact that Comcrap would not appreciate me competing with them for broadband customers, especially when they would be providing the uplink. An idea for my neighborhood would be to get multiple T1 circuits as the end users grow, that way even when one T1 goes down, one could point to another for their gateway.
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Thats a great idea, but each little community net would need to have some type of beafy wired or fiber backbone, and I am not aware of wirless equipment that would handle that, maybe after a few years of WIMax stuff will be more readily available and affordable. I live in Philly, where we have a hughe number of communities made up of attached row homes, would be easy to make backbones on the attached segments, but would need to "hop" over streets etc...
I wonder if the langauge of these bills would prohibit non profit organizations from forming community networks. If not then it could be possible to form non profits for the sole purpose of providing broadband. Start suggesting this at your local community meetings!
No, there is a distance limitation, but it is working at my nieghbors house through the power meters, his and mine. My understanding is that as long as you are served by the same transformer you are only limmitted by distance. My neighbor is acheiving 4.58 Mbs at last check, so that why I would repeat the ethernet wit a cheap switch and send it to the next neighbor with another pair of these devices. I would also need to mention that I live in a row home, so the length of actual power line is that of my outlet to my panel, up the main, down my neighbors main etccc, about 100 feet or less. The manufacturers statment about it working in your house only has been proven not accurate. I guess thats why there is 56bit encryption.
Why would I go wireless to a home right next to me if a pair of cheap Powerline devices would do the same for less money and a potential throughput of 14Mps? I would go wireless to go over a public street or an un cooperative neighbor. Also the expense of weather proofing WAPS and external antennas etc...
Since I didn't want to take up to many bytes, I left out an idea of taking over the coax cable from the cable company inside an apartment building (in most cases cable after the tap in a building is property of building owner) and create a cable modem network as well as an SMATV system, using cisco broadband equipment, multiple sat receivers and RF modulators, one per channel. The only problem their is the cost of the cisco equipment. So I wonder if anyone has succesfully used old cable modems, say one at a Linux box serving DHCP, DNS gateway etc.. and the end users with standard DOCSIS cable modems? Fiber is still to expensive to install.
The SLA would be the main reason, but also the fact that Comcrap would not appreciate me competing with them for broadband customers, especially when they would be providing the uplink. An idea for my neighborhood would be to get multiple T1 circuits as the end users grow, that way even when one T1 goes down, one could point to another for their gateway.