"The weakest link" (was Re: FilePro running on Unix vs Windows)

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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:24:55PM -0500,
Walter Vaughan blabbed on about:
> Brian K. White wrote:
>  > Ideally, it'd be nice to pay for the wifi instead of the
> > wired since then you get coverage all over the hotel instead of just in 
> > your room.
> 
> Last week I was in Indianapolis, and spent several hours in the fpRoom 
> using my Verizon Wireless Cellphone card. Even in areas like Indy which 
> are not in the Broadband area performance is still good for 80 or so kBps.

Techically, "broadband" as defined by telco operators and as enforced by
the FCC on claims of false advertisement need be no faster than ISDN.  DSL
won't sync under 128kbit, I was told--and your throughput could be that
bad, but so long as it syncs, you can't touch them for not providing
broadband.

I agree in principle on how it -should- be.  I'm just stating how the
regulators and carriers view it.  "If you don't like it, walk."  That's
their version of "guaranteed service".  The DSL agreements flat-out say
it's a "best effort" service, and say it up-front.  If you go as far as
getting a guaranteed speed line and they can't make it work right, the only
guarantee you have is that you can walk away from it.  That's what I was
informed BellSouth's policy is like, and I don't imagine the rest of the
carriers are much (if any) different.

> No as good a WIFI, but good enough till they get 3G deployed in more 
> than 12 cities. When I was in Vegas it was about 300kBps for downloads 
> with this PCIMA card.

I can get 575 out of my 802.11b on a good day, between two of the systems.
470 is more common.  I can't wait to see what happens when I take it all to
802.11g mixed with hardwire in the next few months.

mark->
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