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 lml2000Whazzup
join:2000-08-17
Los Angeles, CA | reply to Nightfall
Re: Rome wasn't built in a day said by Nightfall:
It took 2 years to get cable broadband and I was one of the first ones to get it. TWO FRIGGIN YEARS!
Sorry, have to chuckle. You exclaim that Grand Rapids, MI, is a big city. Never been there so can't comment. But I live in the middle of Los Angeles, which a bit bigger than Grand Rapids, in a high-end community, and a cable modem rollout, if there is ever to be one, WILL HAVE MORE THAN FIVE YEARS. [See Post by emhinkes below . . . which I haven't yet read . . . but I likely know what it says.]
Heck, where I live DSL is just now being offered. Too bad for my neighbors a few blocks away served by Verizon. Their best hope is the foreseeable future, is the revival of Metricom's old service, which never was really here, but was supposed to be here, but died "on the vine."
My point is your situation is far from unique, and illustrative of the timeliness in which these improvements happen.
said by Nightfall:
These rollouts take time. I am going to get a lot of flamers here saying they should just get it rolled out everywhere and price doesn't matter. I would love to see 100% of the US broadband capable. I just know it isn't going to happen for about 3-5 more years.
Broadband to 100 percent of the US? More like by the end of the decade. Not much is gonna happen for another two years, and then the effort to wire rural America is going to run into a lot of snags and stalls. Believe me. | | |
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Sorry, have to chuckle. You exclaim that Grand Rapids, MI, is a big city. Never been there so can't comment. But I live in the middle of Los Angeles, which a bit bigger than Grand Rapids, in a high-end community, and a cable modem rollout, if there is ever to be one, WILL HAVE MORE THAN FIVE YEARS. [See Post by emhinkes below . . . which I haven't yet read . . . but I likely know what it says.]
Heck, where I live DSL is just now being offered. Too bad for my neighbors a few blocks away served by Verizon. Their best hope is the foreseeable future, is the revival of Metricom's old service, which never was really here, but was supposed to be here, but died "on the vine."
Perhaps I should know this already, but where is Sillicon Valley exactly? If they're not wired, I can see it now. Cisco has some employees that can't do their work from home (so they can leave the office early to eat dinner with the family, etc...) because, their net engineers have no broadband. I could just see a few net engineers gripe.
Then again we have Intel, Sandia National Laboritories, and a few other such businesses here in Albuq. I wonder what they're employees thought before we got broadband.
I would think many working for many of these tech firms would be interested in broadband at home. Then if there be any movie stars (aka Hollywood also there), well hmm...
But where is Sillicon Valley exactly? If they don't have broadband access for their residents now...I could just see it now LOL Yes many comp engineers, getting home don't want to necessarily have to deal with dialup. I know people besides myself, who leased an appt partly in consideration of whether they could get DSL...
Hell when this one individual was graduating from college, and in interview with many companies...when it came to locating him (the company settled everything, got a place for him to live, payed for his stuff to be moved at corporate expence, etc...) one thing he asked was that he has broadband. They were like "no problem, we'll arrange that...
If enough prospective employees want this, and companies in CA offer similar to this tech firm this person got hired from...you'd think the like of companies such as Intel would be thinking "we have employees who want this, which after interview, we'd like to hire..."
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lml2000Whazzup
join:2000-08-17
Los Angeles, CA | said by finortis:
Perhaps I should know this already, but where is Sillicon Valley exactly?
It extends north from San Jose to just south of San Francisco. Pull up a map, and you'll recognize a lot of familiar towns. | |
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