Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[Jack Bates <jbates () paradoxnetworks net>]

On 2/27/2015 5:09 PM, Måns Nilsson wrote:
> What people want, at least once thay have tasted it, is optical last 
> mile. And not that PON shit. The real stuff or bust. 

Yeah. Then they complain when a tornado wipes out their power and they 
can't make a phone call.

It's a real world. Things are not always what we want. I'm sorry, but 
while I could afford the tens of thousands of dollars to run power one 
mile to my house, I will not be seeing fiber anytime soon. As much as I 
hate it, looks like wireless point to point for awhile. :(

Thinking of HAM radio to perhaps get help if things get really bad.

> > Let's be honest, it would be nice to utilize wasted download
> > frequency to send something quicker.
> Any access technology with less than 1Gbit symmetrical bandwidth is
> 20th century. Doing greenfield with that is plainly stupid. There
> is business to be made from smaller upgrades to copper that is in place,
> but as soon as you dig (or set new poles in the ground), fiber is the
> only real alternative.

It's hard to get DSL in some places in the country. Fiber? ha!

Jack