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[CtownMikey]

it would be nice if RIWINS would open up its network to Iphone users for a monthly fee

[runawayjim]

CtownMikey, on Jul 26 2007, 02:18 PM, said:

it would be nice if RIWINS would open up its network to Iphone users for a monthly fee

so you'll pay the monthly fee to RIWINS and to AT&T?  you're nuts!

i don't think it would work anyways.  i'm pretty sure RIWINS is WiMax, not WiFi.  they're 2 different types of wireless networking.

[CtownMikey]

I thought it was wifi...
hey the forum is dead.. cant blame me.. thought it was a good idea

[quente]

Since the implementation of RI-WINs is stalled for now, perhaps we might eventually take advantage of this satellite-based, super-high speed internet system that Japan is developing: Super-speed internet satellite blasts off in Japan

The system would have transfer rates of up to 1.2 gigabytes per second! By comparison, FiOS (which still doesn't have service on Federal Hill!) has a maximum download/upload rate of 15 Mbps.

[BBascule]

quente, on Feb 23 2008, 07:57 AM, said:

Since the implementation of RI-WINs is stalled for now, perhaps we might eventually take advantage of this satellite-based, super-high speed internet system that Japan is developing: Super-speed internet satellite blasts off in Japan

The system would have transfer rates of up to 1.2 gigabytes per second! By comparison, FiOS (which still doesn't have service on Federal Hill!) has a maximum download/upload rate of 15 Mbps.

Hell yeah! 1.2 gb/second? Let's do it....

Actually, when I signed up for FiOS,  Verizon claimed you could get 30 Mbps service - but it was over $100 or something crazy like that. Broadband is ridiculously overpriced in this country.

[runawayjim]

BBascule, on Feb 23 2008, 10:20 AM, said:

Hell yeah! 1.2 gb/second? Let's do it....

Actually, when I signed up for FiOS,  Verizon claimed you could get 30 Mbps service - but it was over $100 or something crazy like that. Broadband is ridiculously overpriced in this country.

yes, verizon was just trying to woo people away from cox.  while i understand the benefits of having fios, it just isn't worth it for me to switch (especially with cox adjusting their pricing to be more competitive and offering deals to their customers).  the basic fios service is something like 6 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up.  That's the same as the cox package that's offered at the same price.  i'm sticking with cox until one of them really tries to get more competitive (though fios isn't even offered in the city yet (as far as i know, at least not my neighborhood).

[dgreco]

runawayjim, on Feb 23 2008, 05:51 PM, said:

yes, verizon was just trying to woo people away from cox.  while i understand the benefits of having fios, it just isn't worth it for me to switch (especially with cox adjusting their pricing to be more competitive and offering deals to their customers).  the basic fios service is something like 6 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up.  That's the same as the cox package that's offered at the same price.  i'm sticking with cox until one of them really tries to get more competitive (though fios isn't even offered in the city yet (as far as i know, at least not my neighborhood).

the 1 month better rate through verizon is 20 over 5, but after that the price goes up and you go down to 10/5 or 5/2 and cox basic is 6/2 and if you have a new modem as of 2007 or so I believe you actually get the 10/2 service.  You can upgrade through Cox for 15/5 for an extra 20 a month, but then you need a new modem which will run you another 100+.

[frymasterspeck]

Some of this is reflective of the discussions yesterday at Harvard re: FCC/Net Neutrality and 'the final mile.' Excellent live blogging by Dave Weinberger of Cluetrain fame.

In that testimony, as it were, there was a lot of insistence from Comcast that "we sell up to certain speeds. There's no guarantee that you'll actually get that speed."

Which is so totally the fact because I rarely upload over 200 kps via FTP and sometimes it's under 100 kps. I'm here at the Grant and we share some honkin' Cox connection.

Up to...? More like yours...

Anybody hear about the Plan B in SF? Deploying lots of tiny roof-top repeaters or some such instead of the giant eye-in-the-sky...? Could that somehow work across rural spaces?

[frymasterspeck]

OMG   - Comcast hired seat warmers for the hearing into their own nefarious practices and over 100 legit spectators get turned away. Busted already, in typical web 2 style.

The Fortune 500 - Leading by example. Straight to hell.

[TheAnk]

At this point, I'd go just about anywhere to escape Cox.. They are a cocky monopoly.. I have the fast serivce, dl/20? ul/5? and its great when it works, but its running full pipe maybe 2/3rds of the time.. I remote home from work, and the damn thing I SWEAR, they shut it down during the day.. I know nothing about this technically speaking, but during weekdays, its up and running like 15% of the time..

I'd pay more for less speed, Hurry up verizon.. We need FIOS in the ghetto too.. And we can all afford it too somehow. You can tell by the abundance of DirecTV and DISH Network in the hood.

[frymasterspeck]

RI Nexus website has a story about the Prov emergency response wi-fi network. On the topic of public uses, he punts, saying it needs a regional not municipal footprint. True dat.

RI Nexus website has a story about the Prov emergency response wi-fi network. On the topic of public uses, he punts, saying it needs a regional not municipal footprint. True dat.

[Frankie811]

FCC proposes free Internet, with a catch. FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin is proposing that free wireless Internet access be made available to everyone as part of a sale of public airwaves.

[FjmArch]

Frankie811, on Dec 11 2008, 07:03 AM, said:

FCC proposes free Internet, with a catch. FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin is proposing that free wireless Internet access be made available to everyone as part of a sale of public airwaves.

No thank-you, I'd rather not have the government regulate yet another part of my daily life.

[Cotuit]

FjmArch, on Dec 11 2008, 11:38 AM, said:

No thank-you, I'd rather not have the government regulate yet another part of my daily life.

That's my thought, I'm sure they wouldn't approve of my porn consumption.