At 04:58 PM 7/19/2007, Larry DiGioia N8KU wrote:
>I am wondering why anyone needs to run gigabit to their ISP
>antenna/radio, when the fastest speed you could possibly get through the
>wire from your ISP is *maybe* 8 to 10 megabit...?
Not any more..
Check out, for example, Motorola PTP400 or PTP600... 300 Mbps point
to point microwave links. They have slower ones too, but even the
slowest is 20 Mbps.
And, as far as what the consumer expectation might be for their
broadband connection, I have FiOS (fiber) to my house and the lowest
tier is (I think) 15 Mbps, with tiers up to at least 50 Mbps, if not higher.
Granted, I don't see a WISP forking out the $10-20K to put one of the
superduper endpoints in, at lower speeds (e.g. 108 Mbps) the
endpoints only cost a kilobuck. That's quite comparable to the
"installed cost" of something like FiOS (a bit more than $900 in my
neighborhood, because it's fairly new and there's conduit to pull the
fiber through, as opposed to needing to trench).
in any case, all these little widgets use GigE as the interconnect.
Jim, W6RMK
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