Comments on: Be Your Own ISP

By: IT Professionals

IT Professionals — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:03:07 +0000

[...] 50Mbps – WowCan You Feel The ISPs Clamping Down Yet?It’s a fascinating concept. Simply rolling out your own ISP. And I suppose for large businesses, large neighborhood associations, etc, it may very well be a [...]

By: Kyle Brady

Kyle Brady — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:02:31 +0000

Thanks Stephen – I wish I could implement this setup for myself…

–Kyle

By: Stephen C. Webster

Stephen C. Webster — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:50:13 +0000

Coming off a night of Internet down-time in my Time Warner monopolized apartment complex, I can only reply, “Damn straight!” Good piece.

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Havas Media Lab » Disruption Landscape - 04/09/2010 — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:25:51 +0000

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By: Upset With Huge Bonuses

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:13:41 +0000

Don’t get you hopes up too far. The upstream link can, and probably eventually will, adopt traffic shaping. And the ‘association’ that runs the last mile LAN will need to find creative solutions to the ‘commons’ problem of unbounded net access. As the saying goes: follow the $.

By: SteveInTransit

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:52:37 +0000

There are plenty of downtown residential areas where this would work- a neighborhood association that runs a trunk down a block, and either wireless or zoning variance to string a cable across a street. Picking up a few hundred households within a few blocks would be relatively easy. This gives you telephone and media, if you structure it a bit differently- local caching at the block level.

The barriers here aren’t technical. And we’ll finally have our cable/phone company killer here, if that monopoly can be broken up. And what’s effectively a LAN on a city block level has some interesting applications.

By: Rob Bickel

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:15:47 +0000

This is really a rare situation for it being cost effective. Only areas with existin infrastructure and high population density could pull something like this off. On the plus side the hardware now is so cheap and easy, even my ex wife could figure it out.

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Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:32:01 +0000

[...] Be Your Own ISP – “For those who are increasingly frustrated with their ISP’s poor customer service, variable-rate connections, and traffic shaping/filtering, a question arises: can you be your own ISP? In some cases, the answer is yes…” [...]

By: Dennis Hildebrand

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:04:11 +0000

Very Interesting…. I’m growing weary of Comcast and their control over me, and am currently seeking other options. Seems like the idea that you are talking about COULD really take off. If you are living in a suburban community (like me) perhaps this is something that could evolve from neighborhood associations..

By: SteveInTransit

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:58:05 +0000

100 users in a ISP co-op that recovers all costs in 2 years. This is actually quite an interesting idea for a nonprofit..