With Scoop and Jon, technology writer and broadband consultant Steve Stroh discusses broadband access, rural wireless Internet providers, satellite-based Internet, fiber networks, and much more.

"If you can get fiber, do it. Because it is the best, highest quality - not just fastest, but it's the best option for broadband Internet access. Because, basically, it's pure data. You've got a pair of glass fibers dedicated to you, typically straight between your house or business and the central office. Or wherever it's going to be hubbed out of. It's immune to electrical interference, it's generally immune to everything - water doesn't bother it, it's not shared with other people, and about the only thing that can take out fiber is squirrels or backhoes."

Steve writes about about Broadband Wireless Internet Access systems and technology. In 1997 he started a column about wireless for Internet Service Providers called Wireless Data Developments in Boardwatch Magazine in April, 1997. He's currently thinking and writing about Independent Broadband Networks, small broadband networks usually in rural areas.

Image: Inside a broadband router, by Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier

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