>>>>>The more profound effects, I believe, will be to break the lock that the industry now has<<<<<
Hi Frank, I have been lurking on threads that you frequent since I started reading SI this summer. I have been beating my head, figuratively, against a brick wall with frustration about the World Wide Wait since I first went on-line in mid-1980's, and have almost transcended frustration with industry hype and achieved some kind of zen-like indifference, sort of like that which one adopts for commuting in local DC metro area traffic. On a good day. On a bad day, at least I can read a book I keep in my lap while I wait for pages to download. This summer, I did grit my teeth so hard I cracked a tooth. An engineer who works for GTE promised me we'd be able to have ION this fall, but apparently that's not true.
It really makes me envious when I access internet using a T-1 line, but I am not willing to pay for one. Also, I understand that if we all had a T-1 line, we would be back where we started.
So, keep up the good work. I am not an engineer, just a frustrated consumer, and have nothing to add to the discussion other than encouragement that someone, somewhere, get their act together and quit promoting hype. |
