On a more serious note,<br><br>yeah, That's certainly a step in the right direction, BT have been<br>dragging the feet, and from a business case, why provide more bandwidth,<br>it you can get 20 grand a year for a couple of megs, then why should<br>you up your speeds to 100mb/s for less????<br><br>I see these people being taken over by BT or a large another Telco <br>within a year, maybe two.. if you start connecting routers, point 2 point<br>via dark fiber, then the normal frame relay, ATM, telco' networks becomes<br>irrelevant as companies start to managed their own infrastructure.<br><br>This may cause an explosion in voip services too! ;-).<br><br>You could do a very nice wifi network, where ever you had a manhole<br>cover, you could place a solar powered AP , and bingo, as fast as wifi<br>can go broadband!! nice.<br><br>my wifi is never runs more that 2mb/s because that my downstream!!!<br><br>Gotta stick one more Joke in.<br><br>Customer: Hello, is
that H2O customer support...<br><br>Support: Yes, How can I help you<br><br>C: I seem to be having problems with my downstream<br><br>S: Did you have a curry last night?<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><b><i>gordon dunlop <astrozubenel@googlemail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Daniel Lamb posted an article a couple of months ago about H2O using<br>sewers for bringing high speed internet to the Universities of Dundee<br>& Abertay. Now they are talking about doing a deal with ISP's so that<br>the whole city, including homes, can get these speeds.<br>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/159045/sewer-firm-brings-100mbsec-broadband-to-britain.html<br><br>Gordon<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk
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