>>12948279> get a WISP setupEven the top of the line cambium or ubiquity point to multipoint systems struggle to get more than 500 mbps per sector in a real world scenario. That's 10 4k streams. Each household wants to run two streams at once that's 5 homes you can serve off an access point. Of course you oversubscribe in the hopes that not all customers will be using this much bandwidth at the same time but still...
You can do high gain (more narrow beam) sectors and interleave adjacent frequency channel so they have physical separation but you still will have a hell of a time serving more than a hundred or so customers from a site unless you just let the service quality go to absolute shit.
And then you have the interference issues, everything and their dog runs on these same frequencies. A new wisp opens up or some guy buys the same sort ubiquity gear your running to share his comcast with his son ten miles away and now half your customers cant connect. We used to put a fucking parabolic dish on every god dammed subscriber because of this but it still won't help the fact that your access point is seeing loads of interference.
I helped start a wisp way back when, and helped run it for decades before we sold that shit. It's just really fucking hard to do it in a way that won't leave you with a bunch customers that hate you. Now I'm doing fiber to the home.
BTW some folks talking about rural fiber, the local telecom gets corporate welfare from the RUS taxes everyone pays on their phone bill to serve these rural people. I know a company that spent $100k to serve a single customer because of this. It's a little different but still the same kind of thing that Elon is getting the billion dollars for doing starling in rural America.
