On 26/02/2016 13:33, Paul Brooks wrote:
On 26/02/2016 8:30 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
The first mile of fiber is cheap to install. The expensive part is getting the
fiber
from the street into people's homes. It is much easier to put an antenna on a
pole
outside in the street.
Easier? perhaps. Cheaper? probably not, since you've got to do a truck-roll or
two anyway.
How about this Tom - deploy this radio network of yours, and we'll appoint you
Chief
Maintenance Officer. You'll be responsible for the cost of the vast fleet of
repair
vans, spares holdings, warehousing, and technicians to keep all those radio
transceivers and antennas all running, fixing all the blown power supplies and
transceivers after lightning strikes within CSG timeframes, and then you can
press the
'go' button each time the firmware in the radio transceivers on the poles needs
to be
updated and reflashed, hoping you've ensured compatibility with the units
inside the
homes so that all the millions of radio links come back up again once their
reboot
cycle completes - because you're also responsible for the call-centre that will
take
the complaint calls when the radio links break.
It's really hard to understand why people cannot comprehend that FTTH
is the *best* solution. Malcolm has truly F'd up the NBN, even Bill Morrow
stating that FTTN will have to be replaced within 20 years (in a Senate
Estimates Committee hearing no less).
Your proposal is an excellent one. I wonder if Tom will take up the
challenge.
Six laptops seems a lot for the average home of less than three people. I doubt
that
they will have any laptops or desktops in the future. All you need is a docking
station for your mobile device, to connect it to a large screen and keyboard.
'average home of less than three people'? - thats like saying the average human
being
has precisely one boob AND one testicle, and then building a factory to make
clothes
for that average person - I would hazard a guess that actual homes of three
people
don't form a large proportion of homes. I do know that in my household of 4
people we
have three desktops, four laptops, plus tablets and phones - and that doesn't
count
the obsolete ones that aren't turned on much - because devices are generally
cheap
enough that you can use one appropriate to your needs at the time.
Yes, I think Tom has lost it a bit, perhaps too much academia? The desktop
may decrease in numbers but it will not die. Multiple displays? My work
desktop has 4, my home office uses 3. I can upgrade it. Other reasons
abound.
When I first setup my home office about 10 years ago, I assigned my network
as a /29 - this gave me 14 IP addresses to use as I thought I'd never
have that
many devices on my network. It is nowhere near enough now.
-andyf
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