Speed Limit test zones dead in the water!

[B R]

Originally Posted by Bear Lover

Wireless is not the only way to go. Cat5 run house to house works great and you can run 350 feet to a router then 350 feet to the next router. You can amplify the line 8 times. Therefore a one dimensional network expanding in two directions can connect 17 homes over a maximum distance of 5,600 feet. That is over a mile. If you figure a three dimensional network using 1 in 4 out routers the maximum number of homes is 16,387 and if there routers have wireless capability the answer is astronomical. All using 1 ip of the satellite.

But even island residents are not that energetic. However there have been several large size networks set up on the island. I am told some of the equipment that was used on Bear has been taken to Rattlesnake now that Bear is getting connected to cable.

Wow, you guys sure are time consuming.

yes, you can have networks with as many people as you want on them (ever heard of a university) that can even travel to other countries. i'm not disputing that.

what i am disputing is your notion that metrocast set up your neighborhood with a single ip address. this is against fcc regulations and i'll tell you why.

metrocast needs to be able to supply data to federal and local authorities should the need arise. an example would be suspected terrorists activity, downloading inappropriate material from the internet.... if the fbi calls metrocast and asks who is at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ip address, they need to be able to identify the household, not the neighborhood. if the fcc allowed connections like you're trying to tell me you have, there wouldn't be any accountability for anyone's internet activity; and we know this is not the case.

so i'll stand by my statement that you are not all hooked up to one cable modem, that at the most you are sharing a wireless internet connection that's probably got a reach of 100 yards.

no matter how many times you say it, 1+1 will never equal anything else but 2. you can say it equals 3 as many times as you want; it will not change the facts.

btw: 1) you can run 600' between routers and 2) no one in my department has ever heard of a three dimensional network. did you make that up? 3) multiport routers aren't used that much anymore; most people these days use layer 5 switches. i have some that have 48 ports on them; would that be a 48th dimensional network??? WOW, that's sounds really cool. i didn't know i had one of those.