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OT, Internet Service prices
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:52:02 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
wrote: On 19/09/2019 00.20, Char Jackson wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:39:00 -0400, Paul wrote: The first cable deployment here, stalled at 1.5Mbit/sec. And the cause was too many subscribers on each piece of routing equipment. There was an angry mob milling around the booth at the mall, which I thought was hilarious. (That people thought by milling around like that would change things somehow.) The Rogers solution... was to remove the booth from the mall. It's pretty hard to mill around something that isn't there any more. In general, "networking is hard". Not true, but enough people apparently think so that I've been able to make a very comfortable living. :-) Normal people do not have a network tester. One that doesn't simply measure continuity. We have to install the cable and hope. "Do not have" isn't really a problem, since everything you need is freely downloadable. "Don't know how to use" is perhaps a bigger hill to climb. I'd agree if you had said it that way. |
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OT, Internet Service prices
On 9/19/19 12:55 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
[snip] Normal people do not have a network tester. One that doesn't simply measure continuity. We have to install the cable and hope. "Do not have" isn't really a problem, since everything you need is freely downloadable. "Don't know how to use" is perhaps a bigger hill to climb. I'd agree if you had said it that way. Other common impediments seem to be "Afraid to try" and thinking of knowledge as a fatal disease. -- 97 days until the winter celebration (Wed, Dec 25, 2019 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). "It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians" [Pat Robertson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sept. 14, 1993] |
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