The ill-named SkyeNet thing is up and running, shared slice of 5 Mbps, long distance wireless. One of my neighbours, Hugh, hosts a node on his patch. A good friend of mine, Rob, is a user, who has said little about is apart from 'doesn't work', when it doesn't work, and complains of slowness 'only 3.5 Mbps now'. But of course as a shared service people ought to have been able to work out the implications of that. For some reason, I think Rob is still using Virgin Media too (over BTW) which is there when the local effort doesn't work. There is a danger that such hardware will be utterly blasted to smithereens by the horrific weather in the (naturally) exposed position where it's parked. I parked my satellite dish (Sky) in a position where it is sheltered by the whole house when the weather is very bad and we're had no problems so far, even though it's the biggest one I could get (easily).