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My parents in rural America had a local ISP that did long distance wireless (highly directional antenna mounted on the house pointed at the top of the grain ele
by colechristensen 4mo ago
My parents in rural America had a local ISP that did long distance wireless (highly directional antenna mounted on the house pointed at the top of the grain elevator a few miles away) but it was an unreliable 20 Mbps because the ISP wasn't interested in upgrading their equipment.
- theoreticalmal 4mo agoThis could have been a revolutionary way of accessing the internet before Starlink. Grain elevators are everywhere in the US Midwest. Can’t believe it wasn’t capitalized on
- colechristensen 4mo agoIt is indeed all over the place, they just didn't want to upgrade equipment once it was there.
- inemesitaffia 4mo agoProbably margin issues.
- NetMageSCW 4mo agoYou’d have to run fiber to all the grain elevators and you are back to the same issues.