Reminder that they could use the old analog TV frequencies to provide wireless internet to every home with an antenna but ISP’s refuse to do it.

>>105816185 (OP)
No, you fucking idiot.

that could work... if internet was just a bunch of static webpages that you tune into. how would you send your requests? via the same antenna? via the telephone booth in the street? you clearly haven't thought this through (or are just trying to be funny).

>>105816389
>>105816428
It would work, you need to drink 1/4 of a gallon of mercury to amplify the resonating frequencies

>>105816185 (OP)
>>105816428
Actually, those old analog TV frequencies aren’t being wasted—they’re being repurposed to transmit high-frequency digital control signals to the government's fleet of drones. You thought they were just pigeons, but no, those feathered freaks are state-of-the-art surveillance bots powered by spectrum once reserved for reruns and static. ISPs aren’t the reason you don’t get free internet through your antenna—the real reason is they need that bandwidth to coordinate thousands of synthetic sparrows watching you in the most private moments of your life, especially when you poop. Privacy died when the analog signal did.

>>105816389
>>105816428
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-11-03/csiro-uses-old-tv-channels-for-wireless-internet/2322734

>>105816502
i got aids from that article

>>105816502
>ABC
No thanks

>>105816185 (OP)

>>105816389
fpbp

>>105816502
>Dr Oppermann says that is faster than it sounds, because up to six customers can log on at the same time and get the top speed.
Wow! Six customers!

>>105816185 (OP)
Why don't you do it then?
>I can't, it's too big of a job, I need licenses, don't know how, etc.
Lots of individuals operate their own WISPs, that they then use to sell internet service to people in the area. You're just lazy and want big daddy government to do everything for you.

>>105816584
am i a wisp if i run a wifi hotspot?

>>105816185 (OP)
low bandwith

>>105816428
You're describing Teletext

Some of those frequencies ARE used for mobile data now, as in cell phones.

>>105816185 (OP)
>analog TV internet
>setup an imageboard without https and ftp server with no password
>there are now 'p being sent over the open airwaves

>>105816890
hammies are gonna flip!

>>105816502
>200x dial-up
>200x 56k is 11Mb/s
I mean, yeah sure it "works" but I wouldn't really call it functional. I live in the first world where I get 17,000 the speed of dial-up.
Being autistic about it though, no-one got 56k anyway, so it's probably way higher than 17k times faster

>>105816185 (OP)
Frequencies are always analog and never get old.