The Minneapolis Star Tribune has an article this morning about the city of Chaska’s wireless broadband service for $16. Discussed previously in USA Today and Slashdot, I’ve looked into it, but I don’t think it’s for me.

It’s more than half off of Sprint DSL, and almost 2/3 less than Time Warner’s Roadrunner service. I’ve had Roadrunner since it launched in Chaska 4 years ago, and it’s been rock steady. I used to average 2.5 megs down, and recently they upped it to 3.5 down. With Chaska.net offering 800k – 1.2 megs down, the reliability, but more importantly (as a gamer) the speed of RR will keep me with RR’s service.

Chaska.net does give me hope for the future, as more cities in the U.S. adopt this model and can make broadband affordable for everyone.