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October 1st 03, 10:51 AM
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"-=jd=-" wrote in message 3... Dateline "rec.radio.shortwave", Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:43:12 GMT: As it appeared in message-ID# , "Frank Dresser" appears to have written the following... "David" wrote in message ... FCC COMMISSIONER KATHLEEN Q. ABERNATHY SEES BROADBAND-OVER- POWERLINE TECHNOLOGY AS A COMPONENT OF "BROADBAND NIRVANA" On September 22, 2003, FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy delivered a speech to the United PowerLine Council's Annual Conference in which she heavily promoted broadband-over-powerline ("BPL") technology. Rarely has an FCC Commissioner presented such a one-sided address, not mentioning the likelihood that BPL will cause massive interference to licensed radio services. Ms. Abernathy's entire speech (as prepared for delivery) and a summary of the response of one organization are posted at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-239079A1.doc and http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/09/25/100/?nc=1 [snip] Is broadband itself worth gushing over? Around here, broadband is supposed to be 10 times faster at maybe twice the price. On paper, broadband looks like a pretty good deal compared to two line setup in which one line is used mostly for dial-up. Still, dial-up is doing quite well. Dial-up suits me fine, at least for now. So, just what is broadband nirvana? Frank Dresser Being able to telecommute from home without your connection to a development server or database timing-out. I actually require it in order to do what I need to do. I get cable broadband access for $20/month. Normally, it's $25, but I have my own cable modem and don't pay the monthly rental fee. Last time I had dialup, $20/month would have been a competitive rate - I'm not sure what the average dial-up rate is today. I would also feel quite safe in guessing that, for the vast majority of people, dial-up would suffice if you were talking about the minimum bandwidth needed to perform the task (email, web-surfing, etc). The problem is "impatience" on the part of he general public (they want that page to open NOW!) and the desire for a more "content rich" internet experience from those pushing content as well as those pulling content. You could most likely define "content rich" as one or more of the following: - MP3 Sharing - Multimedia - Bigger/Better/Badder Ads - Porn Speaking of which, wasn't Porn attributed to having a large influence on the success of VHS over Beta? There's some interesting things that *could* be done with a decent broadband connection (like smooth, undistorted voice and video "phone calls" to family) except that broadband is never all it's cracked up to be. It does no good to have a gigabit fiber-to-the-desktop connection if somewhere between your PC and the other end is a 300 baud phone coupler... There's good and bad in most things... -=jd=- -- My Current Disposable Email: (Remove YOUR HAT to reply directly) |
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