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Here at home we get our internet over cable TV. (Used to have AT&T copper... it was awful.) The Brat has fiber all the way into her condo. My nextdoor neighbor has a short-haul microwave dish; so do we at work.

I once tried a cellular modem for internet, but that never worked.

I'm thinking that 5G might become universal for everything. No wires or anything to the end users.

Looking out from the roof at work, I can see about 25 dishes, with my poor eyesight. I bet I could spot hundreds with binoculars. It would be cool if we could see the microwave beams at night.

snipped-for-privacy@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

wires

Even in the 4G realm, there is a ministry for the homeless where one of the employees let his phone be a wifi connection point for ten users at a time, and I had no problem getting 1.2MB/s movie file feeds from him while the bar (ten users) was full. It depended more on how close I was to him (his phone), because his rate was solid all the time. He had unlimited data, obviously. I am unaware if his provider ever contacted him about the huge usage, because he did it for about a year.

Sure would muck up both the airspace and our privacy, but it is likely where things are headed.

You should simply tie your PC to your phone. Phone = generally secure. Plebty of bandwidth.. no brainer. No more need for the hugely overpriced cable twerps (both for internet and TV content). Because you TV also can stream content for you now.

Best path for me. One price for phone. Use it for the PC needs and even my TV content streaming needs. No more cable, or additional Internet provider, putting all that on a back burner, since all your connectivity needs can now be handled by the phone. They jumped in and beat them all.

F*ck (overpriced since the eighties) cable.

I have a flip phone. It's just a telephone.

The cable modem is giving me 673/41 mbits this morning, more than anyone needs. I do like fast upload speeds because I use Dropbox and email big files now and then.

Comcast just upgraded our tv/net/phone service and reduced the price. Competition, I guess.

snipped-for-privacy@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

All three of those is like what $150 a month?

I doubt any 5G phone will be that high.

It was about $100 before the recent price cut and speed upgrade. I'm not sure what it is now.

Mo likes the TV part. I have no use for it.

Seems like, with 600 mbits coming in, there's no use for cable TV. Watch anything any time you feel like it, if you do feel like it. I think cable in its present form is doomed.

It's funny how times change. I remember when getting cable was among the highest aspirations of the lower classes; those who achieved that lofty goal were instantly raised to celebrity status among their fellow ghetto- dwellers. Yet now, as you no doubt correctly foresee, the sun is firmly setting on cable and there are new and better technologies comin' down the pike for the poor and huddled masses to lust after. :-D

Cursitor Doom wrote in news:qmqvrd$iu0$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Hey! I liked being able to watch "Gator" on (cable)TV while shooting pool in my dad's rec room back in 1978. Me and my friends could get a buzz and come in and watch cable while we played pool. Way better than getting a buzz and twiddling our thumbs.

On Warner Amex's "CUBE" cable system installed in Greater Cincinnati. A dual coax bidirectional system that was never used to its full potential in any of the cities it was installed in AFAIK. It could take votes and a few other things they never used. All they used it for and cared about was pay per view authorizations. I think they also lost interest when TIME bought them. And then fiber began to usher in not long thereafter.

That dual coax crap sure was hard to pull a 150' drop up on though. Damn! Especially in HUG-A-POLE mode. :-) Good thing I only had a couple of those. Did Jim Brown's house in Indian Hill too. It was a couple hundred feet through the woods from the pole to the P-hook (on a one story house!), I think because they were unable to make a run down his street (Indian Hill is one of the 1%er neighborhoods in Cinti).

Then my next lofty goal then was owning LaserDisc instead of renting videos, the boat of which I never boarded. WAY better A/V quality. Paid $125 for my 2001 ASO. Had a bunch of now rare NASA discs too.