Any satellite based internet is going to have problems. It's the physical limit if the distance up to the bird and back. For Geostationary Satellites it is about 24,000 miles up in the air. That's 48,000 miles round trip. Even at the speed of light, that creates enough latency that things like VOIP, gaming, and video don't work well. The other issue with satellite is the capacity they can carry. While they may be able to deliver a high speed connection they can't do it with a lot of customers. That is why satellite internet providers have fair access policies (FAP). They can't be high speed to everyone all of the time. The other issue with satellite is that there is only so much space in the sky to place them. whether it's geostationary or low earth orbit(LEO) by international agreements (and laws of physics) you only have a certain number of available orbits. Ground based fiber is always going to deliver the most capacity for the most reasonable expense. As much as I love wireless one can not dispute the hard facts :-)

I'm the author of that map and it was only a static image of the big picture. Here is a link to a Google Map with address lookup capability: http://www.wirelessmapping.com/Google%20Maps3.htm The National WISP Map Initiative is explained here: http://www.wirelessmapping.com/National%20Map.htm And you can search the database for WISP's by state here: http://www.wispdirectory.com/ this is not a complete list but a good start. This whole project was to raise the awareness that broadband in the rural markets is farther along than those in Congress believe and that the Cellular Op's are not the only people doing wireless internet. Less than a week ago this national WISP footprint did not even exist. It's quite a job consolidating and finding all of the independent operators. This was an all volunteer project.

I'm the author of that map and it was only a static image of the big picture. Here is a link to a Google Map with address lookup capability: http://www.wirelessmapping.com/Google%20Maps3.htm The National WISP Map Initiative is explained here: http://www.wirelessmapping.com/National%20Map.htm And you can search the database for WISP's by state here: http://www.wispdirectory.com/ this is not a complete list but a good start. This whole project was to raise the awareness that broadband in the rural markets is farther along than those in Congress believe and that the Cellular Op's are not the only people doing wireless internet. Less than a week ago this national WISP footprint did not even exist. It's quite a job consolidating and finding all of the independent operators. This was an all volunteer project. Brett was not involved other than submitting his own WISP network coverage as part of the map.

I'm the author of that map and it was only a static image of the big picture. Here is a link to a Google Map with address lookup capability: http://www.wirelessmapping.com/Google%20Maps3.htm The National WISP Map Initiative is explained here: http://www.wirelessmapping.com/National%20Map.htm And you can search the database for WISP's by state here: http://www.wispdirectory.com/ this is not a complete list but a good start. This whole project was to raise the awareness that broadband in the rural markets is farther along than those in Congress believe and that the Cellular Op's are not the only people doing wireless internet. Less than a week ago this national WISP footprint did not even exist. It's quite a job consolidating and finding all of the independent operators.

I'm the author of that map and it was only a static image of the big picture. Here is a link to a Google Map with address lookup capability: http://www.wirelessmapping.com/Google%20Maps3.htm The National WISP Map Initiative is explained here: http://www.wirelessmapping.com/National%20Map.htm And you can search the database for WISP's by state here: http://www.wispdirectory.com/ this is not a complete list but a good start. This whole project was to raise the awareness that broadband in the rural markets is farther along than those in Congress believe and that the Cellular Op's are not the only people doing wireless internet. Less than a week ago this national WISP footprint did not even exist. It's quite a job consolidating and finding all of the independent operators.