Funny, how in the title refers to the Internet globally when the article is
specific about the USA.
I live in europe and we have at home 100Mbps . Mid sized city of 500k
people. Some ISPs even spread WiFi across town so that subscribers can have
internet access outside their homes.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote:
On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Scott Brim wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:47, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote:
I'd go so far as to say user failure. If I wanted cable TV
(especially if I needed it at home as part of my job), I wouldn't
buy/rent/lease/whatever a home without checking that cable TV is
available at that location.
Yeah, he messed up, but the social problem is still real. The
Internet is now more important than electricity or water -- you can go
off the grid or dig your own well, but more and more you can't get a
job or talk to the government without web access and email.
I have an off-the-grid location I can go to. I can get internet access
there with a VZ MIFI at speeds of 1Mb/s. What I can't get is a software
update over that service to keep my devices secure. The 5GB data cap gets
in the way.
The current set of iphone/ipad firmware updates are about 700mb per device.
Not counting the latest combo updater (or incremental) for MacOS.
(Hopefully with the 5.0 software announced they will do OTA updates on a
different APN that doesn't count against ones data limits).
I don't use windows so not sure what those weigh in at, but they're bound
to be a few hundred megs.
- Jared
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Ricardo Ferreira
