From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 2 20:10:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0991F37B419; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:10:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0079.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.79] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16sc5v-0001Pd-00; Tue, 02 Apr 2002 20:10:00 -0800 Message-ID: <3CAA807F.6EC256DE@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 20:09:35 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Clark Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Anthony Atkielski , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix References: <3CA8EB5F.2E91B408@mindspring.com> <1017709221.71119.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3CA91382.4E4E2B@mindspring.com> <1017714456.71119.20.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3CA93944.D72D6AB7@mindspring.com> <004501c1da0f$7cd67a80$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020402162112.B26122@wantadilla.lemis.com> <007001c1da81$34acc9e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020403090836.K26122@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CAA54C2.6EEA5839@mindspring.com> <20020402180628.E41726@darkstar.gte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Robert Clark wrote: > > I live in Silicon Valley. I can't get DSL because I'm 200 > > feet too far away from the LATE, and the tarrif imposes a > > stiff fine for anything below the optimum speed rating for > > a given tarrif rate, so they are completely unwilling to > > try, even though the copper plant in this area is relatively > > new, and unlikely to have any problems even at half again > > the rated distance. They won't drop a DSLM into the area, > > even though there are 6000 apartment units in the same area, > > all chock-full of Oracle engineers and engineers for other > > big companies, whose employers would pay for their home net > > connection to get them to break their backs for the company > > every waking moment. > > What kind of imbicile chooses a place to live outside of the > DSL footprint? > > Come on Terry, this isn't the 80s or anything. > > ;-) I moved in before DSL was deployed anywhere (_anywhere_). What kind of imbecile business developement manager at a phone company doesn't put a DSLM on the end of an optical fiber to reach an area with a 20,000 population which consists mostly of Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft engineers? Who ever heard of an engineer willing to pay for high speed Internet connectivity... oh, wait... that's the number one, single largest market for high speed Internet connectivity. Oh well... gotta amortize the 4ESS we bought back in the early 90's for another year... Could be worse... could be in one of the cities out side St. George, Utah, where they installed a *brand new, shiny mechanical phone switch*. New equipment... gotta amortize *that* for 20 years. I guess they will get the ability to tone dial by 2017... that should be good enough, right? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message