Municipal ISP?

[K C Muffin]

wow

I hope what they're predicting for KC doesn't materialize. We're having the sports show up here this week - Tues thru Sun. The ice is supposed to start falling tomorrow. I've said it a million times. I can deal with snow. Ice is just no fun at all.

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by K C Muffin

....Ice is just no fun at all.

Ice belongs in Scotch, not on the pavement.

[K C Muffin]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

Ice belongs in Scotch, not on the pavement.

I'll go there with ya, Hiway! One thing is good, though, if it's rainin' ice, I can't go 80 mph in my little VW. I have to slow down to 65 or 70.

[Detector]

For those who are wireless you probably already know, but wireless has some inherent issues that need to be addressed in my opinion. Wireless is far more vulnerable to outside conditions such as weather,intrusions and latency.

How many wireless connections went down from the last ice storm? How many have had issues when the wind blows hard? I heard of wireless going down from a simple hard rain, fog or snow.

Wireless is far more likely to suffer from intrusions unless you have TCP V6 which still has it's own issues. Intercepting communication between wireless devices is extremely easy and with the right software even a novice can decrypt and use it.

For me the biggest issue is latency. Latency is the delay time it takes your device to send and receive packets/data from another device. My understanding is there is still a 3-4 second latency of wireless. Not such a problem from those who just need to browse the Internet, but it's instant death for gamers and with VoIP(Voice over IP) soon to become the rage imagine talking on your phone and having to wait up to 6 seconds to hear a response.

[lurker]

Originally Posted by Detector

Anyone have any idea how much this "free Internet" is going to cost someone? About 8 months ago I priced a OC12(622.08 Mbps) which is what our corporate WAN is and it was around $500,000 a month plus several $100,000 setup costs. The price has probably gone down some but that still a huge fee someones got to pay.

Guess who that someone would be?

At a half-a-million per month an OC12 pipe is purdee ambitious for a city this size and very generous when considering the number of 'subscribers' it can support.... 2 million 'dial-up' or 90 to 130 thousand broadband subscribers.

I was thinking more along the lines of an OC3 pipe that can support ~23,000 broadband'ers. I don't have any accurate cost figures for an OC3. Do you?

Broadband figures are based on 256kbps to 512kbps nominal throughput.

Latency is an issue for 'real time' users and they would always have a right to utilize any available wired ISP..