Comments on: Linksys WRT54G3G / Sprint Mobile Broadband Review (Hint: Well Worth Every Penny)

By: nethy

nethy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:11:31 +0000

Yeh, and hotels aren’t even expensive infrastructure, (You have a lot of rooms in a building) especially if your putting in a new building.
But if you take emerging economies that never got phone lines etc. in properly in the first place, mobile infrastructure is so much cheaper.
But it comes with its own catches. Since we pretty much assume any infrastructure will be obsolete in 10 years, noone wants to back it.

By: Adam McFarland

Adam McFarland — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:29:08 +0000

“The massive connection fee they quoted you shows the underlying costs of infrastructure. And how much mobile tech can save.”

Great point. This reminds me of hotel internet connections. Around 1999 every upscale hotel invested a ton of money in wiring CAT 5 cable throughout their building so that they could offer their customers high speed internet. And it was worth it…for like 3 years until everyone else just started dropping wireless routers in and saving thousands on installation.

By: nethy

nethy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:22:50 +0000

Here in Oz you can just get a modem/router mobile broadband (to be confusing they call it wireless broadband).

That’s what I have for home. Speeds are not great (says on the box 512) but liveable. But they go up and down terribly. OK for home. But I wouldn’t want to work with it. Especially if like me(& like you) use what can be called online apps. I use CMSs a fair bit. If you want a cloud office (google docs etc.) I definitely wouldn’t rely on it - yet.

But’s probably better in the states.

The massive connection fee they quoted you shows the underlying costs of infrastructure. And how much mobile tech can save.