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To be my own ISP...
croxis
I am the walrus
in Zocalo v2.0
Broadband sucks, at least where I live (Portland, United States). I can do the monopolized cable Internet (only one option, Comcast), or DSL and then I am limited to my land line provider.
Another problem are the lousy plans. The apartment I am taking care of this summer has cable Internet with an advertised 6 Mbps down and a delightful 300 kbps up. It is very rare that any downloads I have go above 1 Mbps before they are done but uploading a file or hosting a game server sure can slow things down. Pings arent that wonderful either. I would rather have 1 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up with tighter pings than this huge sloppy pipe.
It is not so much I am very serious about this, it is mostly a thought exercise. I can already for see a couple of problems, one which is that paying for the pipe will probably cost a bit as the large providers buy their bandwidth in bulk.
Here is what I know I would need:
The box: The router/server that connects my local network to the big bad Internet. I would need SSL, DNS, HTTP, SMPT or Sendmail, POP3, firewall, and other common routing software (port forwarding and the like). Also I would need an NIC that would connect to whatever thing I am connecting to.
The IP: I would need to get an IP.
The pipe: Here is where my knowledge dies. What entity would I buy/rent the pipe from? What would be the price range? What kind of connection is it? Where would I go to find what options I have?
Ok enough ramblings of a crazy man.
Another problem are the lousy plans. The apartment I am taking care of this summer has cable Internet with an advertised 6 Mbps down and a delightful 300 kbps up. It is very rare that any downloads I have go above 1 Mbps before they are done but uploading a file or hosting a game server sure can slow things down. Pings arent that wonderful either. I would rather have 1 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up with tighter pings than this huge sloppy pipe.
It is not so much I am very serious about this, it is mostly a thought exercise. I can already for see a couple of problems, one which is that paying for the pipe will probably cost a bit as the large providers buy their bandwidth in bulk.
Here is what I know I would need:
The box: The router/server that connects my local network to the big bad Internet. I would need SSL, DNS, HTTP, SMPT or Sendmail, POP3, firewall, and other common routing software (port forwarding and the like). Also I would need an NIC that would connect to whatever thing I am connecting to.
The IP: I would need to get an IP.
The pipe: Here is where my knowledge dies. What entity would I buy/rent the pipe from? What would be the price range? What kind of connection is it? Where would I go to find what options I have?
Ok enough ramblings of a crazy man.
Comments
Or probably sooner, there have been some plans for building a citywide pre-WiMAX hotspot network: [url]http://www.dailywireless.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3863[/url]
Anyway I know there is a T1 line running to a house that is 12 houses down from me, if only I could piggy-back off that somehow.
Jake
We had electric, gas, water and sewer, and thats it.
It took a month and me calling every day before they got me a phone line, as my neighbors started moving in, they too started calling on a daily basis. It sucked, but now I have a decently fast internet actual speeds by dslreports got me 568KB/sec down and 74KB/sec up.
Just as a side note, when I cancelled Northland cable and got DirecTV the guy behind the counter at Northland tells me "Oh, I have direcTV its great!" I wasnt quite sure what to say to that.
Another issue is that my state supposedly has hundreds if not a couple thousands of miles of dark fiber that the state subsidized to put in but the dot com bust ruined anyone from using it. I have this crazy idea of starting my own broadband ISP or spearhead a , but I know that it would be almost impossible to do outside of wireless.
Call me old fashioned but I just like having hard lines!