[Hidden-tech] GAW internet

[Daniel Fried]

Really?  You consider $24.95/month for 10mbps pricy?  Heck, I pay more than
that for Comcast where I get about 1.5mpbs, and only slightly less for DSL
at 768k.

As for your guess that they're using cellular signals, I don't think they
could get that speed with cellular around here... not with doing their own
cellular network buildout.  I don't think anyone is offering 20mbps cell
service in the valley, are they?

As for reception, they install an antenna on the outside of your house and
run a wire in to your computer/router.

I too was really annoyed with their lack of information on the website...
it's pretty much all that's keeping me from signing up right now.

My actual suspicion is that they went ahead and did the radio licensing
thing.  I saw the previously posted press release on whitespace licensing,
but I thought that was about a future buildout, not what they had already.

-Dan


On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:41 AM, ussailis at shaysnet.com <ussailis at shaysnet.com
> wrote:

> I just looked under "How it works." Not much there. I suspect they are
> using a cell phone network. Why?
>
> For their own network they need an FCC assigned band or need to "buy" some
> frequency band, for use restricted to this "service area" at an FCC
> auction. This costs astronomical bucks.
>
> The last nationwide sale of frequencies brought it $19.6B to the treasury.
> Admittedly, the value of frequency space in the valley is a whale of a lot
> less.
>
> Next they have to build out a radio infrastructure. They claim they use
> existing towers, but that's only a fraction of the infrastructure.
>
> So much easier to use unused cell phone time slots, frequency slots,  &
> infrastructure. I suspect this is what they are doing.
>
> The issue users might have are:
>
> Availability (Cell frequencies and time slots can get filled),
>
> Signal level in your favorite location (I might want to use the computer in
> the living room, not next to the microwave in the kitchen, as works at a
> friend's place in Hatfield),
>
> Too many users in the future.
>
>
> On the other hand this service might be great for the valley. A bit pricey,
> tho.
>
> How's the Mass program coming to provide high speed internet service in the
> Hill Towns?
>
>
> Jim Ussailis
> jim at nationalwireless.com
>
>
>
>
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Daniel Fried frieddan at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 09:34:14 -0400
> To: fsaronson at gmail.com, Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] GAW internet
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