[CUWiN] Activity?

[Todd Boyle]

I love your footnotes!

Re. the CUWIN wireless mesh apparatus, isn't it completely obsoleted 
by products like Meraki that do the same thing for $50 without 
requiring technical expertise?   This is just the march of time, the 
march of history.

I always hoped and wished that the people would operate the internet 
rather than allowing teh commercial telephone and cable TV operators 
to own and operate the Internet but I have been disappointed to say 
the least!   People just don't care that much about it.  They think 
things are ok.    The commercial providers, for their part have spent 
much of their takings and plowed it back into fiber and router 
capacity, I'll admit that.   At least in the denser, higher income 
neighborhoods (i.e. advertising markets).   In doing so, they've 
supported a continuous increase in expectations on thruput and 
performance that raises the price of entry for any 3rd network even 
if heavily funded (such as the municipal networks).

It seems to me the Meraki or CUWIN things still have niches in the US 
suburbs but they're pretty sparse, pretty narrow niches. Such as 
emergency connectivity, or a rare cirucmstances of gamers or file 
sharers who happen to live nearby, and happen to have that rare 
combination of social affinity/trust and technical savvy, etc.   Very rare.

Todd



At 06:52 AM 8/5/2008, Jeff Kinz wrote:

>Hi Folks, Just wondering if your group is still active?
>Haven't seen any email from this list for 7 months or so.
>So I'm just wondering.
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