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Originally Posted by unknownroad
Satellite is broadband in a technical sense. However, the latency is brutal (even at the speed of light, it takes a while for data to run through the atmosphere and back), which means it sucks ass for things like terminal server applications.
And you need to shop around a bit for your towers.
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What is your point here? Now we are debating fast and slow internet to a selective few? You want fast internet, move to a city.
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...That's already the situation when it comes to wired broadband. Verizon is the ILEC for our little section of South Carolina. Don't know how the hell they ended up owning the wires, since everything else in the county is owned by AT&T (formerly Bellsouth), but they couldn't possibly care less. They refuse to upgrade the local Central Office to run DSL, so we don't get it.
Comcast owns the franchise rights to cable in our area. Call any other cable company, and they say we can't help you, call Comcast. Call Comcast, and they say "we show that your local carrier is DirectTV." They refuse to run cable a mile down one of the main roads in town, even when we offered to pay them to do it, even when the town council intervened on resident's behalf. The local wired utilities are government-licensed monopolies, and they say "fuck you".
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It apparently does not make buisness sense to run the cable "a mile down the road"....so just get Direct TV? Am I missing something here?
The problem is that alot of you for this crap think that everything is a "right" and the rest "well if the government is going to take my money, I might as well be for free internet". Both are wrong ideals IMO.