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Originally Posted by B R
you just aren't nice at all are you?
I've been using the internet for 20 years, before web browsers, before windows (when gopher servers were used to navigate around the internet). i am well aware of what a firewall is, how it is used and how the 54,000+ ports of a tcp/ip stack are used and secured.
you sent me a PM accusing me of trying to find out who you are. trust me, that wouldn't be that hard.
you wrote something that didn't make sense to me (like many of your posts) and i was questioning what didn't make sense.
if living in ignorance means i don't have to listen to your convoluted explanation of how the internet works, i can live with that.
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Wireless is not the only way to go. Cat5 run house to house works great and you can run 350 feet to a router then 350 feet to the next router. You can amplify the line 8 times. Therefore a one dimensional network expanding in two directions can connect 17 homes over a maximum distance of 5,600 feet. That is over a mile. If you figure a three dimensional network using 1 in 4 out routers the maximum number of homes is 16,387 and if there routers have wireless capability the answer is astronomical. All using 1 ip of the satellite.
But even island residents are not that energetic. However there have been several large size networks set up on the island. I am told some of the equipment that was used on Bear has been taken to Rattlesnake now that Bear is getting connected to cable.