Comments on: National Shame: Swaths of Non-Rural US without Broadband; Time for Re-Divestiture http://blog.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/ Internet Bandwidth Development: Composting the Internet for over Two Decades Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:38:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chris LaCroix http://blog.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-1869 Chris LaCroix Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:14:17 +0000 http://blog.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-1869 Starbucks. It's just Starbucks man! Cash For Clunckers? How about Cash for Clouds so we didn't need cars to go more than 40 miles! What ever happened to telecom being a utility? Were's the shovel ready job? I'll dig a trench to lay fiber before filling in a pothole. Duh. Time to throw the bums out. Starbucks. It’s just Starbucks man! Cash For Clunckers? How about Cash for Clouds so we didn’t need cars to go more than 40 miles! What ever happened to telecom being a utility? Were’s the shovel ready job? I’ll dig a trench to lay fiber before filling in a pothole. Duh. Time to throw the bums out.

]]> By: Chris LaCroix http://blog.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-1860 Chris LaCroix Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:12:52 +0000 http://blog.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-1860 How is Al Gore going to sell books and movies if you have bandwidth in the Silicon Valley and can stay home and work? That would be almost like allowing carbon recycling legal through bio diesel production in California. That's just crazy talk! Bob, you can use my coal powered electric chainsaw. How is Al Gore going to sell books and movies if you have bandwidth in the Silicon Valley and can stay home and work?
That would be almost like allowing carbon recycling legal through bio diesel production in California. That’s just crazy talk!
Bob, you can use my coal powered electric chainsaw.

]]> By: Chris LaCroix http://blog.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-1859 Chris LaCroix Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:50:50 +0000 http://blog.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-1859 I have no sympathy for you rich Saratoga folks, living in your mansions on the hill. Us pit dwellers, here in Morgan Hill have plenty of bandwith. I guess you'll just have to get in your Saab, and drive to Starbucks to hangout with the other folks and their touchscreen Macbooks:) Save the tree, drink more coffee. I have no sympathy for you rich Saratoga folks, living in your mansions on the hill. Us pit dwellers, here in Morgan Hill have plenty of bandwith. I guess you’ll just have to get in your Saab, and drive to Starbucks to hangout with the other folks and their touchscreen Macbooks:) Save the tree, drink more coffee.

]]> By: Robert J Berger http://blog.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-1826 Robert J Berger Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:22:06 +0000 http://blog.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-1826 I tried to get Etheric Wireless this week as my expensive and limited 3G wireless became even more flakey. The folks at Etheric were very nice and I found out that I could potentially get a straight 9 mile link to their facility right on top of a major Fiber Internet node. But then when they did the site survey we found that a single tree was blocking the line of site. I am looking into trimming the tree but it again shows that wireless is not a viable solution to fill in for lack of Fiber, DSL and Cable deployment. I know that my neighbors have even tougher line of site issues with many of them having no line of site to the valley at all. I tried to get Etheric Wireless this week as my expensive and limited 3G wireless became even more flakey. The folks at Etheric were very nice and I found out that I could potentially get a straight 9 mile link to their facility right on top of a major Fiber Internet node. But then when they did the site survey we found that a single tree was blocking the line of site.

I am looking into trimming the tree but it again shows that wireless is not a viable solution to fill in for lack of Fiber, DSL and Cable deployment. I know that my neighbors have even tougher line of site issues with many of them having no line of site to the valley at all.

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