I just wonder what your technical expierence and knowledge base really is Jon.
If you knew half as much as you think you do, then you may have some credibility. Enjoy your cable company provided services, with their horrible customer service record and monopolistic franchise that rivals the ROBC's; which makes the ROBC's the second most hated industry. I wonder who the first is?
Before I shit can cable, in favor of digital DBS satellite; it was down at least once every two months. In 17 years, my phone is down once, and that was because of a backhoe. Does your cable work when you have a power outage. My phone does. It;'s obvious you favor whipping the telco industry for all your past problems, no it couldn't be the crap equipment that the computing indusrty weds itself to or the ISP favoring to blame everyone, but themselves. No that couldn't be it at all, now could it. Most computer rooms and ISP's I've been in, all look like snakes gangbanging with no attempt at prescribed standards of installation. Most of the time the grounding at these facilities are absolutely frightening, but then you probably won't know what a ground loop is, nor the performance erroding effects that it has. Fact: if it wasn't for the telco's the Internet would not exist at all, because who would be carrying the traffic; Ben and Jerry's Ethernet R Us?
In a 25 pr cable do you know how many T-1 can actually be carried? ISDN has been around for 15 years in the US and who used it? No one, because there were other alternatives. Your dispersions on the telco's smack of computer jerk cheerleading led by the King; Bill Gates and his up the butt LT. Groves. Fact, alot of folks won't have this wonder drug HFC for along time. Fact cable still doesn't service a tremendous amount of households. Fact the weak link is the coax itself. With it sharing TV signals the chances of IM is still very real, jsut won misaligned amplifier will cause all kind of problems. When that coax starts carrying HDTV, along with it's analog signal, the baseband loading just doubled. Want to bet, sport, that some funny things will happen to your service then? Yeah you think it's a great deal right now that its new, will see how it is in 3-5 years champ. That's the real test, now isn't it. Who controls the NAP in SF? The very company you cast your dispersions on: Pac Bell. Who do you think provides the pipeline for the Internet? It none other than the telephone industry that you slam. I've been working an providing DS3 and DS4 since the early '70's, so why don't you spout off about how long analog cable has been doing digital? You probably believe in most of the common conspiracies, like there was really aliens at Roswell. |
