Daniel Taylor wrote: > Yeah, I asked specifically about infrastructure wireless for cheaper > deployment to remote areas, and Sen. Klobuchar just lumped it in with > the rest of the questions "about wireless" which the guy who answered it > obviously took for end-user wireless. > > Bleh. She's smart, but she obviously needs better tech advisors (or > needed to let her tech advisor filter the questions instead of doing so > herself...) > > Dan: Glad you asked. They need to be asked questions they know the answer to. Next stop is workaround for Wimax. I know from personal experience, I can build a coat hanger antenna that will receive line of site digital signals from tv up to 80 miles away. The corporations have locked up Wimax technology pretty tight. Eben Moglen has made the call to package DNS in a box. What's missing is the device that receives/transmits white spaces frequencies. At that point, by my reckoning, we blow the corporations out of the water with pirate networks statewide. I think we're close to the next big breakthrough in saving our Internet. I can't help but hope there's a way to have Wimax look a lot like an Asterisk PBX setup. That would be cool. Tom