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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