<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Are you advocating Government involvement?<br>Should the market place relegate this fair city to the bottom of the heap?<br>And why do cows need high speed Internet? <br><div> </div>There is still a bug in the program must use RAID!<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <grlug@grlug.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, March 30, 2011 9:10:56 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
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I have a real, genuine fear that we're going about this with a<br>*severe* case of myopia.<br><br>I had difficulty navigating the web in 2007 on dial-up, with image<br>bugs, large banner ads, huge JavaScript loads, large CSS loads,<br>fifteen 5k or so avatar images whenever you visit a forum thread--even<br>auto-play video video advertisements...Imagine how bad it is now.<br>There are places within twenty miles of here which can't get cable,<br>DSL, or even a reliable cell signal.<br><br>Those involved in designing web services purchase very high-end<br>network connections, get accustomed to those connections, and then<br>*design* for those connections. It's a really bad self-reinforcing<br>loop. Much like how software got slower as computers got faster, but<br>it's much harder to raise the median Internet connection speed than it<br>is to raise the median computer speed.<br><br>There is a not-insignificant fraction of the population in America<br>itself
which is still going to be completely out of reach of even<br>10Mb/s Internet commercial services in ten years, and people gripe<br>that our municipality isn't acting like those which take out a 25-year<br>mortgage on their own essential services infrastructure to "give" us<br>access to gigabit broadband connections below cost.<br><br>I can't be the only one who's noticing this. In order for a<br>bound-to-the-Internet economy to be sustainable, Internet services<br>need to be virtually ubiquitous, and essential activities need to be<br>manageable on lower-end Internet connections.<br><br>On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Bob Kline <<a ymailto="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com" href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br><span>> <a target="_blank"
href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/google-bestows-1gbps-fiber-network-on-kansas-city-kansas.ars">http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/google-bestows-1gbps-fiber-network-on-kansas-city-kansas.ars</a></span><br>> This gives a good summary about<br>> why Google is doing this. It thinks<br>> it needs higher speeds to support<br>> future projects. And it clearly sees<br>> that the existing big providers are<br>> digging in, not providing higher speeds,<br>> and not above not letting others do<br>> it either.<br>> It will be interesting to see how this<br>> plays out. Chattanooga, TN, already<br>> has a 1Gbps system.<br>> -- Bob<br>> --<br>> This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is<br>> believed to be clean.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> grlug mailing list<br>> <a
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