[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - broadband

[Ben DeMott]

I really think the Broadband infrastructure is a travesty in this country.
There are countless reasons why it is the way it is, in the "Per-Capita
Wealthiest Nation in the World" (according to the CIA factbook)

The CIA Fact Book has some interesting statistics about "developed regions"
and "density regions".  If you only take into account these areas that the
Factbook compares as urban or "Density Regions" we have one of the highest
Population Densities in the world... All in all there is really no excuse to
not service these areas with high-end and affordable broadband that is
actually reliable.

I used to work across from the Airport at 44th and Patterson in a Huge
office complex.
There was all sorts of Fiber being piped into the buildings utility room
from the previous owner of the complex (Bosch) - Even a giant at&t
distribution frame labeled DS3-[serial-numbers].
but all that was available from both AT&T and TDS was T1 - and at a hefty
$460 a month.
I couldn't understand how EVERYTHING around us had business DSL, and Cable
available.
Comcast even considered servicing the building (of over 60 offices), but
nothing came of it.

If service providers aren't absolutely FORCED to provide better data-service
they won't they will keep offering the very minimum they can, and issue
government regulated lines - because there is more profit in them!
Why install a DSL Circut when you can force business customers to pay 8 -
10 times the amount for T1's.

The biggest irony was, I still believe to this day there actually was a DSL
circut in the building....
AT&T fiber came in to a large Adtran Distribution Frame, and then that
distribution frame was attached to a box, the box had a bunch of cards in it
labeled "DSL-1234213" and twisted pairs coming out of the cards...
But yet AT&T swore up and down there was no DSL service into the building.
Maybe if there is someone that knows more about phone and data
infrastructure they can explain to me what I am describing - I still have
access to the building I should go back and take pictures, I am curious to
this day.

It's also the biggest messiest MDF I've ever seen in my life, and would
serve as a good laugh for everyone.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:38 PM, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:31:24PM -0400, John J. Foerch wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 03:56:42PM -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > Of course Comcast would figure out some way
> > > > to screw it up.  One really wants Verizon, but
> > > > that's nowhere on the horizon.   That I know of,
> > > > FiOS tiers are 25, 50, and 100 Mbps, and the
> > > > prices are pretty nominal compared to what
> > > > one gets from Comcast.  $35 a month for 25 Mbps
> > > > I believe.
> > > >
> > > >     -- Bob
> > >
> > > Just keep telling ourselves, "it's coming...it's coming..."
> >
> >
> > And send some of that over this way to Lowell Township while you're at
> it.
> > :)
> >
> > --
> > John Foerch
>
> I honestly do not know what I would do with more bandwidth.  Faster
> upload would be great, but I don't run a server.  Backing up to my
> online backup would be more convenient, that's all.  I have the basic
> speed (8Mbps?) from Comcast and my wife and I can both watch something
> from hulu.com just fine.  I'm not sure what more speed would get me.
> Not that I wouldn't love it, mind you, I just don't know what I'd do
> with it.
> --
> john-thomas
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