[FRIAM] The Last Mile, again

[Frank Wimberly]

25/3 probably means 25mbps down and 3mbps up.

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On Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 10:06 PM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Gary,
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> You will be pleased to know that the local group is calling itself,
> Hinternet.
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> They are promising “25/3”, whatever that means.  They said it was the
> minimum standard for
> “broad band”.   And that was not a variable.  No throttling.  NO time off
> for bad behavior.  Unlimited access at that speed.  “So”, I asked them,
> “What happens when everybody starts streaming the Superbowl at once?”
> “No problem.  We have a gig in our pipe and we’ll smoke it” or words to
> that effect.
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> Does anybody know what those words mean?
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> Nick
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Gary
> Schiltz
> *Sent:* Monday, April 23, 2018 10:54 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The Last Mile, again
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> Way to go, mosquito infested bog guy! I'd be curious how much "raw
> bandwidth" ends up costing the group. What speed are they promising each
> client? Here in the People's Republic of Ecuador, dedicated bandwidth goes
> for about $10-20 per Mbps. I manage a micro network of 4 households and get
> 8 Mbps for $120/month ($30 for each household), which so far has been
> enough to do medium quality streaming of Amazon Prime video. Not great, but
> then, this is the hinterland.
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> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 8:43 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
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> Dear friends and relations,
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> There is a movement afoot to bring broad band to us here in the mosquito
> infested bog.  A group of locals is forming a for=profit company to bring
> internet (25/3) to hundreds of subscribers in our hilly, rural town.  They
> will put 4 “Radwin” transmitters atop 150 foot towers on two local hill
> tops with smaller repeaters as necessary.  The transmitters look for all
> the world like Mac Powerbooks.   Each house will have a waffle sized
> receiver. The plan for 200 dollar initial buy-in cost and a one hundred
> dollar per month subscription cost for UNLIMITED service at the advertised
> rate.  (No “up to”.)  I now pay about a hundred dollars a month for a
> Verizon jetpack which pays for only ten gigs of data.  To stay within that
> limit I have to turn off anything that moves on the internet, and go to the
> local library to get podcasts, movies, or to update software, or do a cloud
> backup.
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> In short, I am enthusiastic about the idea.  What’s wrong with it?  And if
> nothing is wrong with it, why haven’t  all you Eldorado folks done it
> already.  Go ahead.  Rain on my parade.   I asked them if they were afraid
> that Verizon would get religion and put in DSL at the last moment just to
> put them out of business.   Their response was that  local DSL service is
> so crappy that it probably wouldn’t make any difference.  They say their
> real competitor is Elon Musk who is planning a vast satellite service that
> will light up everyone in the universe
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> I gather you have all been suffering gale force winds and duststorms.
> Ugh.  We, for our part, have had seven snowfalls since we got here. (All
> minor, but still, relentlessly gray and chilly) The weather broke this
> weekend and the garden is beginning to be populated.   I hope the
> equivalent break is happening for you.
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> Miss you lots,
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> Nick
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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