That's basically it. More performance,<div>in the most general sense, will cost more,</div><div>but it's up to the individual to decide what</div><div>they want to spend their money on. It's </div><div>no different than how people decide what</div>
<div>kind of car to drive, or how big a TV they</div><div>have to have.</div><div><br></div><div>For those in the boonies, some chose to</div><div>live where it's not economic to run the </div><div>faster wires. But there's still HughesNet.</div>
<div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Joseph McLaughlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwm8351@yahoo.com">jwm8351@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><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 <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikemol@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <<a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org" target="_blank">grlug@grlug.org</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wed, March 30, 2011 9:10:56 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [GRLUG] Google and Kansas City<br></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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 href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br><span>> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/google-bestows-1gbps-fiber-network-on-kansas-city-kansas.ars" target="_blank">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>
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