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MEC and network-edge computing is overhyped and underpowered(disruptivewireless.blogspot.com)
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Not quite. VDSL2 will nominally do 300 Mbps. Actual 100 Mbps service isn't uncommon. The successor, G.fast, will nominally do a gig, but about 500 Mbps over short loops.
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by amazon_not 9y ago
This is a pretty uncontrovesial opinion. A lot of both pro and con network neutrality advocates will agree on that what we actually need is more competition, rather than more regulation. In fact those that oppose network neutrality will use
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Satellites are expensive and frequencies are limited. Even if you solve the first, the latter isn't about to change. Demand is also limited. Not a great combination, so your vision on multiple low cost satellite service providers isn&#
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Yes, this is pretty much how is works everywhere.
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by amazon_not 9y ago
If the point is comparing service in different countries then you can't just pick a single high-end plan and say these things are equal. I will concede that including discounts make things tricky, even if they are an integral part of t
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Move the goalposts much? What point are you trying to make, other than picking random plans?
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Where did you get that from? Stokab covers 90% of Stockholm with fiber. 4G and fixed broadband coverage is 100%.
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by amazon_not 9y ago
You misread the price list, that's not the cheapest unlimited text, talk and data plan from DNA. Anyway the cheapest list price for unlimited text, talk and data is from Globetel at 22,85€. https://globetel.fi/liittymät
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by amazon_not 9y ago
"Up to 150m"
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by amazon_not 9y ago
There are existing solutions that use robots to install fiber optic cables in storm drains, sewers and other ducts. Not that cheap, but the biggest problem is that you need permission of the infrastructure owner to do it.
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by amazon_not 9y ago
For that same twenty bucks you can get uncapped and unlimited 4G in Finland. Finland has 1/25 the population density of New Jersey. What was your point again?
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Which was just about my point. As this covers the vast majority of all end users, how do you figure your list logically applies?
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by amazon_not 9y ago
You can buy wholesale Internet bandwidth from most larger ISPs. Get quotes by contacting the carriers in your area. Expect to pay a few grand per month for the pleasure. Give me a shout for more details.
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by amazon_not 9y ago
I'm going to take a wild guess and say you have never run an ISP. The answer is people. You need people to "provide a route to the Internet". To answer phones. To fix things when they break. Running an ISP is far from glamoro
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Define way better. Wireless solutions have many benefits, but they are in no way better in all aspects than fiber. Fiber has its place, as has wireless.
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Fiber lasts for decades. It does not go obsolete. If you want something faster or better change the electronics on each end. If you are worried about the governed not keeping up, let the government put in the fiber and have somebody else li
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by amazon_not 9y ago
How do you figure that when 70% of traffic is streaming?
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Yes, I've heard of them and others, but I think dboreham already put the matter conclusively at rest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16138402
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Could happen how? The big ISPs don't want to do it voluntarily and the Supreme Court says they don't have to. Just because the ISPs don't want to serve rural areas doesn't mean they want anybody else to either.
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by amazon_not 9y ago
How are LEO satellites not going to be centrally controlled? It's not like the satellite owners will let you use them for free or be controlled by commercial interests and subject to laws and regulations. You are also not going to be d
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by amazon_not 9y ago
https://www.fcc.gov/general/white-space
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Mesh networking hasn't really worked out. WISPs, i.e. Wireless Internet Service Providers, do a great job at serving rural (and other) areas.
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by amazon_not 9y ago
There's no way there's going to be subloop unbundling after the Supreme Court killer local loop unbundling.
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Already had that in the US until the Supreme Court decided we shouldn't have that in the Brand X case. It's very, very unlikely to come back.
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by amazon_not 9y ago
We already have this. It's called white space technology and has so far amounted to pretty much nothing. The technology is immature and expensive plus it provides very little bandwidth.
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by amazon_not 9y ago
Only in multimode fiber. Not so in single mode fiber. All subsea cables use singlemode fiber.
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by amazon_not 9y ago
> Does the light signal in an fibre optic cable get noisy over distance? Yes. > If so, then wouldn't an analog signal amp such as this simply amplify the noise along with the signal? Yes. That's why there are limits on the r
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by amazon_not 9y ago
> Is it the case that they're still too expensive or are we talking old legacy long haul infrastructure that hasn't been updated yet? No, all long haul subsea fiber optic cables use all optical amplifiers. They are just colloqu
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by amazon_not 9y ago
> That looks like single mode fiber never refracts… No, it does. > Surely it can't go round any bend, then, though? No, if you bend the fiber too much the light leaks out into the cladding.

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