[125993] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Tue Apr 27 22:14:07 2010
Date: 27 Apr 2010 22:13:24 -0400
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Bret Clark" <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BD793BD.5050906@spectraaccess.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Of course what they offer over those "long long rural runs" and what they can
> actually provide are two different things. DSL performance decreases with
> distance rather dramatically..
That's what I thought, but my friend out on the sheep farm in the next
county says he gets 3Mb just like I do in the village three blocks from
the CO. (Yes, he knows what he's talking about.) They must spend a lot
on repeaters and concentrators.
R's,
John
