<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">;)<br><div> </div>Brenton (iViLe)<br>MW NODE: FUT, FUU<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Zik Saleeba <zik@zikzak.net><br>To: Rowan 2006 <rowan2006@sensation.net.au><br>Cc: melbwireless@wireless.org.au<br>Sent: Friday, 22 September, 2006 5:38:30 PM<br>Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Public internet access<br><br><div>On 9/22/06, Rowan 2006 <rowan2006@sensation.net.au> wrote:<br>><br>> Is $50/mo competitive for 1.5Mbit/sec bandwidth shared between 30 houses<br>> with 10Gb download allowance each, delivered via a non telco grade network<br>> that was set up by hobbyists who cannot reasonably be expected to be
on<br>> call 24/7 if something goes wrong? Probably not...<br><br>I expect that the main attraction for most people here is the thrill<br>of running their own network. Even so, by your calculations above it<br>does come in at around the same price as home ADSL. Ok, so there's no<br>support hotline but real men don't need that :)<br><br>Cheers,<br>Zik<br>_______________________________________________<br>Melbwireless mailing list<br>Melbwireless@wireless.org.au<br><a target="_blank" href="http://wireless.org.au/mailman/listinfo/melbwireless">http://wireless.org.au/mailman/listinfo/melbwireless</a><br></div></div><br></div></div><br>
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