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If your payload is power generation equipment, and you are able to stay airborne for an indefinite period, is that not perpetual motion? The usual preventative physics apply; friction, efficiency.
The best you can get is about 25mbps when sitting right under our only cell phone tower in town, it is about 0.5mbps when I can get a signal at my house.
My wired home Internet? 15/1 ADSL2. We have cable, they offer speeds up to 30/5 or so, but they force you to bundle it with cable TV to get speeds that high, and I don't want cable TV in my house, nor do I want to pay >$100 for internet only twice as fast; plus, during peak hours, the network falls apart, our local ADSL2 network doesn't.
I've written to Google, trying to get them to deploy Google Fiber in Maine, since we need it badly: we don't have a monopoly, we just don't have anything recognizable as the Internet, not the way the rest of the US gets it.
Hopefully, they start deploying this in my area sometime in the next few years.
Where I live in Maine, this is a third world country when it comes to connectivity. The best you can get is about 25mbps when sitting right under our only cell phone tower in town, it is about 0.5mbps when I can get a signal at my house. My wired home Internet? 15/1 ADSL2. We have cable, they offer speeds up to 30/5 or so, but they force you to bundle it with cable TV to get speeds that high, and I don't want cable T…
So how come millimeter wave networking from Google is a good thing, but the when the ex-Aereo guys announce a similar thing everyone is skeptical? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984755