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Re: A heartwarming story

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Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:

> <URL: http://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9511768>
>
> Kari and Ritva Partanen were in dire straits four years ago. A little
> less than ten years ago, the phone company of the neighboring town
> closed its Wimax network, which had become legacy technology.

So ... couple has internet connectivity; couple loses connectivity;
couple regains connectivity.

I'd have liked to know more about the old and new systems and what
differed.  I see talk about relays.  This problem is probably more
common than the average urbanite is willing to believe, especially when
you consider the dollar value of infrastructure required to bring fast
internet to far away places.

I was once stunned by a trip to rural, Sahelian, northern Senegal [1],
where a 3G wifi dongle [2] allowed me to access Usenet from the middle
of a desert landscape formidable by any measure.  But that required a
healthy network of cell towers and the 3G infrastructure that supported
it.

For all the talk about rebuilding American infrastructure, the
investment that would have to support fast internet to the backwoods is
beyond belief (for that matter, the dollar value of improving our road
network or, as I read today our power transmission infrastructure, is
astronomical as well.  Too bad we spent all our money - and our
children's and grandchildren's - bombing Iraq and Afghanistan).  I don't
think we'll have the money to do it any time soon.

[1]  http://therandymon.com/index.php?/archives/165-Connecting-Backwards-through-Time.html

[2]  http://therandymon.com/index.php?/archives/164-Huawei-E1552-on-Linux.html

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A heartwarming story Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-03-18 10:06 +0200
  Re: A heartwarming story RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-19 20:36 -0400
    Re: A heartwarming story "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2017-03-28 23:16 +0200

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