It’s not open. Work with the schools and you get to filter it. However, with a Procera box or a Barracuda Web Filter, you have some options. Keep in mind the Chromebooks are school issued meaning they come with rules.
Rory From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of That One Guy /sarcasm Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 10:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Unsurprising news: Rural Mississippi broadband sucks Rory, Can you do that now, open internet and all? The guvment needs to fund ftth to all these people gigabit to the farm gigabit to every horse On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Rory Conaway <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We are looking at a similar issue and the best we can come up with is a cluster solution at those prices. We are going to drop the cost down to $10 per month for homes that only use some school device like Chrome or iPad and then $20 for 5Mbps service with certain things blocked. Rory From: Af [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Glen Waldrop Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 6:47 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Unsurprising news: Rural Mississippi broadband sucks Honestly, I live in rural Alabama. When the neighbors that I can't even see get too suffocating I ride through Mississippi and drive at 70mph down their four lane highways and go minutes if not several minutes between seeing houses. MS has some population centers, but at least the majority of the state I've been through are sparsely populated. Makes *any* Internet service hard to maintain and just break even. I can make a few dollars above expenses in rural Alabama and we're looking at expanding into rural MS, but even wireless is prohibitively expensive per sub in most places there. There are several stretches around Starkville, which he mentioned in the article, where there are 3+ miles between houses, seriously heavy trees. Fiber would be ridiculously expensive to run, aDSL can't cover the distances, wireless can't go through the trees. The article seems to be all about the problem and attempting to turn it into a race thing with no practical suggestions on how to fix it. I don't have an answer. Been looking at the situation and I've actually worked some numbers. Tower rental or putting one up with an AP where you can only pick up 3 subs? I've got some like that here, by the time the equipment is paid for lightning has killed it. I actually had one neighborhood start to sabotage my AP over "free" service for the Volunteer Fire Dept because it was too slow. They had a meeting I wasn't invited to discussing throwing me off the tower. I spoke to the chief, wrote a letter crunching the numbers on a per tower basis, finding that to date it has cost me $800+ to serve these people free Internet in a neighborhood that swore they'd all connect as soon as I brought it to them. Three subs, 40+ freeloaders. The VFD power bill averaged $15 a month before I offered free service for meetings, classes, etc. Everyone in the community has a key, so their light bill is $200+ now and my heaviest user in an entire county is a free service. That slowed down my expansion into the seriously rural areas, which were my intended locations for service in the first place. ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Kuhnke<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 4:12 AM Subject: [AFMUG] Unsurprising news: Rural Mississippi broadband sucks http://www.wired.com/2015/11/the-land-that-the-internet-forgot/ yeah you're not going to get a lot of subscribers in a county where 90% of the children qualify for free school lunches... no matter what the population is, hard finding a sufficient number of people to pay $50/mo. -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
