http://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/ Switched Comments for Rural Americans Want Better Internet Connection http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/Considering that the population movement is from the country to the city where you can find jobs other than being a dairy farmer, this is wasted money.]]>Jun 9th 2009 1:23PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/Jun 9th 2009 5:33PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/Jun 9th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/
Farms and Dairies are the next Beach-Head for renewable Energy projects ranging from Hundreds of Kw to MW each, and will need to coordinate with Utilities to help manage increasingly Distributed Generation of power in the near Future.

A fatter pipe (DSL) is the most economical solution.

]]>Jun 9th 2009 5:55PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/Jun 9th 2009 8:44PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/09/rural-americans-want-better-internet-connection/The problems WISPs face are cost of bandwidth($6K per month for a T3)(the big carriers charge us more that they charge the companies they own). The size of pipe we can provide is not large enough "WiMax", Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) is to high, the customers can not afford it so we are stuck with 802.11
Bandwidth management is difficult, new services (Net Flix, Hulu and...) are available every day but we only have so much Bandwidth, customers get angry when we point out that P2P is banned in the Terms Of Service when the Grand Son loads Lime Wire on Grandpa's desk top and leaves it open for serving files. The issue is the large carriers do not want small WISPs to survive so they are pricing us out of the market the still will not serve. I net $10 more or less per customer per month (net just on operations and Tech Support) and then a lighting storm takes out $2k worth of routers and tower equipment (2000 / 10 = 200) So It takes out profit for most of a month.
We (the Rural WISPs) need regulation so we can buy Bandwidth at the same rate as the big carrier's charge the ISPs they own. We need bigger pipes that the customer can afford to buy, from what I see the cost line for most Rural customers is under $100 -$200 for CPE installed be it Wimax, 802.11 N or???

The point is that Rural America has the same needs as the folks that live in Urban areas, reducing the carbon foot print alone is justification.

Thanks for reading the ramblings of a tired, broke, Country Geek who thinks that equal access to the internet is important to all of us.
Bonner D. Sawyer Tindle (the country geek)
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States won't spend that stimilus money on high speed internet, NC had a budget shortfall of about 3 billion, they wil hold on to it to stave off layoffs.]]>Aug 26th 2009 10:30AM