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Re: "The need for speed is insatiable..." My main "point" is not that such a connection could not be well-used by some (only a few get to hit the Autobahn all that often--none in the US), but that "the need for speed" is *not* "insatiable" (except for a few). On the other hand, the need for value (and economy) is in far more demand... and that demand is seldom being met. If you want 50/20, and you can get it, then more power to you; but way many more people would really like something (much) slower and (much) cheaper. The lower end of broadband is being washed away by rhetoric and marketing due to the "need" for revenue to finance all of those getting-cheaper-all-the-time network upgrades (or was that for some CEO's yacht upgrade?). |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Fiber is expensive. Dialup is cheap. 768k DSL was $20 last I checked. |
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| Fiber isn't expensive; build-outs are expensive. But customers buying something is better than no customers buying nothing. Frankly, it's kind of pitiful that 5/2 for $30 isn't available. I like my 30/5 FiOS, but I know plenty of people (tech people, like me) who neither need nor want to be on the bleeding edge of ISP hype or ISP revenue streams. |
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 joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | reply to mod_wastrel
Build the pipe and uses will follow... The problem is a chicken-and-egg affair. There aren't any compelling applications that need high bandwidth because few HAVE high bandwidth. How about remote secuirty? Remote backup? Video over IP? There are scads of applications that just aren't possible without high sustained bandwidth.
Yea fiber! Yea Minnesota!
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to mod_wastrel
Re: "The need for speed is insatiable..." True. However fiber buildouts are expensive and thus your commercial entities building the stuff out tend to want quick ROI, hence FiOS's perennial price hikes (though the speed gets hiked as well). |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
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Re: Build the pipe and uses will follow... Heh, I thinkk TDS even beats Paxio on download Mbps per dollar on anything below the package you're on. Which is pretty impressive 
I know that with a 20 Mbps connection a lot more of my stuff would be "in the cloud." That's 20 Mbps symmetric...I have 22 down right now. If I could get 50 Mbps symmetric I'd be in heaven. Alas, such a connectionw ould run me $2000 per month here. |
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Re: "The need for speed is insatiable..." A few years ago, Fiber buildouts were cost prohibitive.
Now fiber build-outs are cheap or cheaper than copper. The problem is, existing companies already have a significant investment in copper.
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