Rural Broadband Internet Access
I currently live in rural Vermont, out of range of DSL or Cable Internet services. I'm stuck with DirecWay satellite at the moment which is expensive, terrible latency, and in my experience, slow and unreliable. Right now, this page is just a dumping ground for links I come across.
Vermont Resources
Vermont Rural Broadband Community Internet Project
Governor Douglas Issues Draft of Vermont Telecommunications Plan & Urges Public Comment
Vermont Telecommunications Web Page
Vermont Telecommunications Plan draft v. 4.0 (3.5 MB pdf)
Community Aggregration - excerpts about ground level creation of market
Vermont cable company coverage map
Estimated Vermont cable modem availabilty map (August 2003)
Estimated Vermont DSL availability map (December 2003)
Combinded Vermont cable modem and dsl availability map
Vermont Broadband service and population density map
Incumbent telephone companies map
Cable Tv and cable modem coverage (August 2003)
Vermont Broadband Council
Agency of Commerce and Community Development
Vermont Economic Development Authority's Technology Infrastructure Financing Program
Vermont Community Development Program
General Rural Broadband Links
Rural Broadband Coalition
Town Owned Network Infrastructure
Wired: Cities Deliver Broadband for Less
Click Network - Tacoma, WA city owned cable service
Technologies
Satellite
DirecWay - 1 and 2 way satellite internet
Broadband Reports DirecWay Forum and FAQ
802.16 - WiMAX
802.16 News
WiMAX Forum - organizing group for the 802.16 standard.
InfoWorld: Vendors, carriers eye WiMax wireless broadband (01/23/2004)
Slashdot: 802.16 WiMax Wireless Broadband on the Horizon (01/26/2004)
Broadband over Powerlines (BPL)
CNET News: Is Broadband set to make power lines sing?
Toronto Star: Sault Ste. Marie makes high-speed power play
HGC - Hong Kong BPL provider
CNET Asia: Hong Kong Launches powerline broadband
Non Line of Site 900 MHz
WaveRider
Pricing from WaveRider (as of 04/23/2004)
NCL 1900 - router - $1495
End User Modem - EUM3004 - $500
Antenna - $70
Mesh Wireless Networking
CommunityWireless.org
MIT Roofnet
Telabria - UK company with a commercial Rural mesh network service
Air Ship Wireless
Guardian: Microlight plan to fill broadband gaps (01/21/2004)
Maps and Aerial Photography
myTopo.com - build and order custom topographic and areal photo maps
USGS Geographic Data Download
View USGS maps and aerial photography via the web
TopoZone - interactive web based top maps
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