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I live in SOMA. Downtown San Francisco. Twitter is across the street from me, literally. My best option is 6-30mbps down, and 1mbps up, or comcast which gives 1
by dnsworks 17y ago
I live in SOMA. Downtown San Francisco. Twitter is across the street from me, literally. My best option is 6-30mbps down, and 1mbps up, or comcast which gives 10mbps up. I'd gladly pay $250/month to get 20mbps up. Unfortunately Comcast is allowed to force apartment building to sign exclusive contracts. Nobody is allowed to put fiber or coaxial into the building but comcast, and DSL just doesn't cut the mustard. After Microsoft made a mockery of the anti-trust system in the US, the fed has seemingly lost all interest in protecting the rights of the American people against monopolies.
Innovation loses. Comcast wins.
- jacquesm 17y agoI used a short haul directional rig for high speed wifi (short haul being anything up to a mile or so) in another location, it cost me some money but it worked like a charm. I got it from these guys: http://www.star-os.com/ http://www.star-os.com/ They really seem to know their stuff. Using that trick you could likely jump from your balcony or window sill to any location in the neighbourhood that is in line-of-sight, to get you significantly more bandwidth than you have today. They also sell a transmitter that isn't entirely legal in all parts of the world that will do significantly longer distances.