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mwooldri

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20. I don't think the backbone is the problem.

Thu May 15, 2014, 10:54 AM

May 2014

It's the "last mile" - the connection between your home and the ISP's equipment. Check out www.b4rn.org.UK ... This is totally community driven. Volunteers are digging in fibre lines...they work as a co-op....

I have no idea if this could be duplicated here but I'm sure with some seed money and an active volunteer base, the community can build out fibre to the home networks and get a decent connection with the existing backbone providers. Part of the problem is that Comcast wouldn't pay to upgrade the connection between itself and the backbones. This is what caused Netflix to not work as well on Comcast because Comcast didn't want to pay for a bigger pipe.

Someone new needs to step in... some organization that can build a new network from scratch... quickly and to many people... yes even the rural areas.

The commercial ISPs won't build it so it may well be us.

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