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Free Internet!

Would you get Internet for Free?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 35.3%
  • No

    Votes: 1 5.9%
  • Only if it's fast enough

    Votes: 10 58.8%
  • Don't Care

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    17

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New York company says it can beam free OUTERNET Wi-fi to every person on Earth | Mail Online

This article claims, there's a company (Outernet), trying to put up enough small, low orbit satellites to beam free internet to the whole world.

I assume with built in Wifi or a wireless router you could get "Free Internet" and at decent speeds?

Though, I don't see the ISP's taking kindly to this, like Comcast or Time Warner Cable. Personally, I'd love to see free internet and possibly TV channels. Saving $100 a month would definitely help my bills.
 
New York company says it can beam free OUTERNET Wi-fi to every person on Earth | Mail Online

This article claims, there's a company (Outernet), trying to put up enough small, low orbit satellites to beam free internet to the whole world.

I assume with built in Wifi or a wireless router you could get "Free Internet" and at decent speeds?

Though, I don't see the ISP's taking kindly to this, like Comcast or Time Warner Cable. Personally, I'd love to see free internet and possibly TV channels. Saving $100 a month would definitely help my bills.

What a great thing that would be. I'm not sure why it would be free...

Satellite internet connections run much slower than cable, so I doubt it'll effect their bottom line. But who knows?

Thinking about it, why doesn't our government do that now?? GPS technology doesn't use private satellites and that's free...
 
New York company says it can beam free OUTERNET Wi-fi to every person on Earth | Mail Online

This article claims, there's a company (Outernet), trying to put up enough small, low orbit satellites to beam free internet to the whole world.

I assume with built in Wifi or a wireless router you could get "Free Internet" and at decent speeds?

Though, I don't see the ISP's taking kindly to this, like Comcast or Time Warner Cable. Personally, I'd love to see free internet and possibly TV channels. Saving $100 a month would definitely help my bills.

I doubt it would be that fast since there is no cable to carry the data not to mention you are sharing it but it would probably be fast enough for those who don't have high-speed to get it. If you are paying 100$/month I imagine you have rather good internet speed, I doubt this would even be comparable.
 
What a great thing that would be. I'm not sure why it would be free...

Satellite internet connections run much slower than cable, so I doubt it'll effect their bottom line. But who knows?

Thinking about it, why doesn't our government do that now?? GPS technology doesn't use private satellites and that's free...

I imagine you would have to buy their hardware for it to work, and you could could the Finnish way and make high-speed internet access a right.
 
What a great thing that would be. I'm not sure why it would be free...

Satellite internet connections run much slower than cable, so I doubt it'll effect their bottom line. But who knows?

They're expecting $millions in donations and my Wifi router says it can run at 50mbps. That's fast enough for me though my current plan is only at 10mpbs.

I think it would put the cable providers almost out of the ISP business, except for servers.
 
I doubt it would be that fast since there is no cable to carry the data not to mention you are sharing it but it would probably be fast enough for those who don't have high-speed to get it. If you are paying 100$/month I imagine you have rather good internet speed, I doubt this would even be comparable.

I was just thinking the other day that if people can access the internet with phones, why can't they beam the same signals in our homes? Though what I've seen of smart phones they're not that fast, even the 4G.
 
I was just thinking the other day that if people can access the internet with phones, why can't they beam the same signals in our homes? Though what I've seen of smart phones they're not that fast, even the 4G.

My Android smartphone is perfectly adequate. If I could get that speed for free? I'd change.
 
Actually what slows sat connections down is the send part, not the receive.

At the very least this would make an excellent backup solution.
 
My Android smartphone is perfectly adequate. If I could get that speed for free? I'd change.

And I'd definitely pay a one time fee for a receiver $100? My router transmits it's signal to a wireless USB connector on my PC but it receives it's signal, via a cable modem, Ethernet line. Which is in turn getting it's signal from a coax cable.
 
I was just thinking the other day that if people can access the internet with phones, why can't they beam the same signals in our homes? Though what I've seen of smart phones they're not that fast, even the 4G.

I imagine it would coast you an arm and a leg.
 
I'm rural. Two wire copper Internet. 31.2 kbps. The dinosaur age for me, and sure I'd love it and happily pay for hardware.
 
We're looking at it from our own perspective, of course.

Imagine other countries who censor their population's internet access!! It really could change the world.

Or start the first inter-stellar war.
 
I imagine it would coast you an arm and a leg.

Their service is free, are you talking about a WiFi receiver for the PC? That shouldn't, theoretically, be more involved than the USB one, I use now for my router?
 
New York company says it can beam free OUTERNET Wi-fi to every person on Earth | Mail Online

This article claims, there's a company (Outernet), trying to put up enough small, low orbit satellites to beam free internet to the whole world.

I assume with built in Wifi or a wireless router you could get "Free Internet" and at decent speeds?

Though, I don't see the ISP's taking kindly to this, like Comcast or Time Warner Cable. Personally, I'd love to see free internet and possibly TV channels. Saving $100 a month would definitely help my bills.

The cost of putting up a number of low earth satellites, with no way to recoup the expenses? A business plan recycled from the tech bubble then. Yeah, I remember the soxs.com web site. :lol:
 
New York company says it can beam free OUTERNET Wi-fi to every person on Earth | Mail Online

This article claims, there's a company (Outernet), trying to put up enough small, low orbit satellites to beam free internet to the whole world.

I assume with built in Wifi or a wireless router you could get "Free Internet" and at decent speeds?

Though, I don't see the ISP's taking kindly to this, like Comcast or Time Warner Cable. Personally, I'd love to see free internet and possibly TV channels. Saving $100 a month would definitely help my bills.

First off... Mail is not a credible source.

Second of all this stinks of a scam.

In no way can they put in the infrastructure for such a thing, that is able to handle "free" internet and the capacity needed. Who will pay for getting up the satellites, let alone the satellites themselves? There are so many unanswered questions about this "deal". There has to be put in restrictions like no Netflix, no HBO, no Youtube and so on, and then frankly how great is such a service?

Lower internet prices will only come with competition but it will only ever be free at the library and other public buildings... and even then it wont really be free and open.
 
Their service is free, are you talking about a WiFi receiver for the PC? That shouldn't, theoretically, be more involved than the USB one, I use now for my router?

You pay a lot of money for data on a phone for maybe 2GB, so I doubt it would be any cheaper.
 
New York company says it can beam free OUTERNET Wi-fi to every person on Earth | Mail Online

This article claims, there's a company (Outernet), trying to put up enough small, low orbit satellites to beam free internet to the whole world.

I assume with built in Wifi or a wireless router you could get "Free Internet" and at decent speeds?

Though, I don't see the ISP's taking kindly to this, like Comcast or Time Warner Cable. Personally, I'd love to see free internet and possibly TV channels. Saving $100 a month would definitely help my bills.

I'm going with the question at face value.

Would I take free internet? Well yeah, DUH!!!

It would have to be workably fast, of course.

If somebody did develop this technology, though, and it really worked, I'd expect some large current media company to buy it and keep it unavailable.
 
We're looking at it from our own perspective, of course.

Imagine other countries who censor their population's internet access!! It really could change the world.

Or start the first inter-stellar war.

Even the Chinese can't effectively monitor their populations Internet usage. They download a free program called Putty, which they use to set up a free shell account and use SSH tunneling to encrypt and port their connection. That bypasses censorship and bandwidth throttling.

But it would definitely start some courtroom battles, between telecom companies and them.
 
I'm going with the question at face value.

Would I take free internet? Well yeah, DUH!!!

It would have to be workably fast, of course.

If somebody did develop this technology, though, and it really worked, I'd expect some large current media company to buy it and keep it unavailable.

I think this company, out of NYC, are trying to do this for altruistic reasons and not money motivated.
 
The cost of putting up a number of low earth satellites, with no way to recoup the expenses? A business plan recycled from the tech bubble then. Yeah, I remember the soxs.com web site. :lol:

First off... Mail is not a credible source.

Second of all this stinks of a scam.

In no way can they put in the infrastructure for such a thing, that is able to handle "free" internet and the capacity needed. Who will pay for getting up the satellites, let alone the satellites themselves? There are so many unanswered questions about this "deal". There has to be put in restrictions like no Netflix, no HBO, no Youtube and so on, and then frankly how great is such a service?

Lower internet prices will only come with competition but it will only ever be free at the library and other public buildings... and even then it wont really be free and open.

Again, naysayers who don't bother reading the articles or links.

They're expecting $millions in contributions and they're using 100's of small, low orbit, cube satellites. I don't think the websites can control content thru connections that easily. Now, TV Networks or other entertainment providers already do control content thru their websites and I don't see that changing, unless they can get mega buck advertisers from sheer volume usage.

You know Napster, essentially changed the way the music industry worked by providing songs for free. I can listen and download practically anything from Youtube. Haven't bought an album in decades, just download MP3's or vids.
 
Even the Chinese can't effectively monitor their populations Internet usage. They download a free program called Putty, which they use to set up a free shell account and use SSH tunneling to encrypt and port their connection. That bypasses censorship and bandwidth throttling.

But it would definitely start some courtroom battles, between telecom companies and them.

I would say they are pretty effective at it, they successfully control a large majority of it.
 
You can't get the speed from satellite, sorry. It's just not possible and the latency is horrible. It's like the dial-up of broadband and you can be sure they're spamming users with advertising too, just like the free dial-up providers did back in the day. So no, I wouldn't.
 
Again, naysayers who don't bother reading the articles or links.

They're expecting $millions in contributions

just like most scams... promising something that they cant deliver..

and they're using 100's of small, low orbit, cube satellites.

And how they gonna pay for them, let alone get them up there? Plus low orbit, means they have to go up against military and spy satellites. How about frequencies? That is government controlled and it wont be allowed if it inter-fears with say GPS or other signals. Look at that system that got killed off because it in 1% of cases maybe gave problems to GPS systems. There a ton of unanswered questions.

I don't think the websites can control content thru connections that easily. Now, TV Networks or other entertainment providers already do control content thru their websites and I don't see that changing, unless they can get mega buck advertisers from sheer volume usage.

Website is just a portal. Networks can be controlled via everything from port blocking to packet sniffing and so on. Or they can just say that each user has 250kb of speed which in the US is considered "highspeed internet"... but in reality cant run sites like youtube.

You know Napster, essentially changed the way the music industry worked by providing songs for free. I can listen and download practically anything from Youtube. Haven't bought an album in decades, just download MP3's or vids.

Napster stole music and gave it away.. bit of a difference. What changed the music industry was the iPod and iTunes, but it did not change it enough. What is changing the music industry now, is Spotify and similar systems, that allow you to listen to all the music you want for a small fee with no ads, or for free with ads. That is the future of music.
 
You can't get the speed from satellite, sorry. It's just not possible and the latency is horrible. It's like the dial-up of broadband and you can be sure they're spamming users with advertising too, just like the free dial-up providers did back in the day. So no, I wouldn't.

We get 20 mb satellite Internet here in Europe.. so speed aint the problem. Latency is, and if it is for anything but games, then latency is not that big of a problem. Satellite internet does however kill online games heh.. that 600ish ms blows in a FPS match.
 
We get 20 mb satellite Internet here in Europe.. so speed aint the problem. Latency is, and if it is for anything but games, then latency is not that big of a problem. Satellite internet does however kill online games heh.. that 600ish ms blows in a FPS match.

20mb is nothing, I get more than 75mb and I could upgrade to over 100mb right now. I'm not going down to 20mb for anything.
 
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