From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 13 09:19:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA29214 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:19:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from intrastar.net (root@INTRASTAR.NET [206.136.25.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA29206 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:18:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from fixed.intrastar.net (jakes@earthstar.net [206.136.25.130]) by intrastar.net (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA02868; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:51:00 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199611131651.KAA02868@intrastar.net> From: "Jacob Suter" To: , Subject: bang bang bang bang - lame lame lame lame Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:16:14 -0600 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk So, while the telcos beat their heads into the wall trying to figure out some way of getting their cooshie monopolies back, I was thinking... Fiber, 100 megabit into homes, mbone, etc etc. Cable company sucks, pots quality sucks, (power sucks but I don't want to put a nuclear generator in - its kinda expensive).. What if I put fiber on the poles, and dropped into people's homes at say, 100 megabit duplex ethernet? Then microwave myself back to the real world to connect to the net... I have no idea what kind of bandwidth I'd be talking for say DSS quality A/V by itself for one channel... It'd need to have a few channels all broadcasting at once and I have no idea what kind of bandwidth that is going to take.. "Yes, I'd like to watch that movie in 1024x768x16.8M.." JS --- Intrastellar Internet Service - Houston County, Texas Voice: (409) 687-9066 http://www.intrastar.net/