>In my case, there isn't always enough pie to go around. >In the last 6 months, my cablemodem connection that I have had for >years, now gets drug down at certain times of day or night to pokey >speeds by a bunch of local 20 somethings...
Well I won't be resentful of their youth. I also don't think you should be resentful of their being ahead of the technological curve. Using the Internet to move large video files is the future. Heck, just a decade ago they were saying the same thing about moving large *audio* files. Remember when people were complaining about Napster clogging up the Internet? This ties into the "Why not the US?" thread... >John--I'm not giving the banks a pass on this, but I've grown weary of the >violin strings played for adults who didn't even begin to have the resources >or were in any sort of position to buy a house, but absolutely had to have a >house, well, because everyone else was getting one. If you want to make >excuses for people who got in over their heads with something they didn't >understand or didn't try to understand, but did anyway, be my guest. The theme here is buying "something they didn't understand." Specifically, buying cable. Getting cable is in a way similar to getting an ARM. They get you in with low teaser rates (high bandwidth), but after a while the terms get less favorable (you get "pokey speeds"). So don't blame the "20 somethings." The pokey speeds is inherent in how cable works. Just like some argued on this list last week that cable is the only game in town, the folks who got the ARMs did it because it was the only way to get the house. Both figured that the future would turn out more rosey than it did. In both cases, understanding the nuts and bolts of how things worked would have avoided the current unpleasantness. Anyone who has cable today ought to be searching for and lobbying for getting something in the future that offers a fixed rate. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
