Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-17 Thread John Scrivner
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:50 PM, John Thomas jtho...@quarnet.com wrote: If you are big enough, or if you are multihomed you can get PI space But you only get 3.14 addresses at a time. :-) (Sorry, could not resist) Scriv

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-16 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ? Want to truly take nothing? Seriously? The mere existence of the Internet is due to government funding. The wires that connect your little corner of Oregon to the great wide world? Probably wouldn't have happened without

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-16 Thread reader
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 6:04 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ? In many ways this is certainly true. Look at the Roman water systems and roads. Where are the Romans now? Oh, never mind. lol marlon

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-16 Thread David E. Smith
rea...@muddyfrogwater.us wrote: This after renumbering and re-routing about 100 clients.So, then, I had to find a way to revert everyone bak to the OLD provider All that was on the OLD hardware. I got done (gave up) after getting most of the clients working about 11 pm. Worked

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-16 Thread reader
...@mvn.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ? rea...@muddyfrogwater.us wrote: This after renumbering and re-routing about 100 clients.So, then, I had to find a way

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-16 Thread eje
BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: rea...@muddyfrogwater.us Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:51:49 To: WISPA General Listwireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ? no, don't have my own space yet. The renumbering isn't

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-16 Thread John Thomas
If you are big enough, or if you are multihomed you can get PI space John David E. Smith wrote: rea...@muddyfrogwater.us wrote: This after renumbering and re-routing about 100 clients.So, then, I had to find a way to revert everyone bak to the OLD provider All that was

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-15 Thread reader
The fact is, the only things we're doing wrong, is allowing too much subsidy, too many barriers to entry into the business, and too much tax money to be gobbled up. In all of these countries with so-called great broadband, how much is ACTUALLY spent by the consumers and taxpayers? Nobody

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-15 Thread Clint Ricker
Want to truly take nothing? Seriously? The mere existence of the Internet is due to government funding. The wires that connect your little corner of Oregon to the great wide world? Probably wouldn't have happened without government subsidies. The same is true around the world. A lot of the

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-15 Thread reader
Why on earth should it be? End the monopolies and end subsidies. There's no excuse under the sun for that to be. NONE \ insert witty tagline here You're in the wrong industry to invent a moral highroad about government subsidisations. Telecomm is

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-13 Thread jp
I don't post on DSLreports, but here's my opinions with the various stories mentioned here and the sometimes illinformed commenters. 1. Painting all broadband providers as greedy isn't accurate. Greed is part of the problem, but not all of it. Nothing unique about that regardless of the line of

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-13 Thread Jonathan Schmidt
The statistics might appear to be distorted in favor of whomever has an agenda. This country has always has an enormous percentage of immigrants, many of whom require a generation to acquire the language and economics to participate in infrastructure, the Internet notwithstanding. Consequently,

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-13 Thread Jeff Broadwick
I love it when some pundit tries to compare the U.S. to other developed countries. Name one with our size population, spread out over such a huge, geographically diverse, nation. Honestly, it just doesn't matter what Japan or Korea do...they are smaller geographically than many of our individual

Re: [WISPA] ARTICLE - What's the U.S. Doing Wrong with Broadband ?

2009-03-13 Thread Sam Tetherow
The one I can't figure out is: if the system is so corrupt now that the incumbent lobbyists have a stranglehold on the nation's goverment, how is more government regulation going to fix the problem? Sam Tetherow Sandhills Wireless Jeff Broadwick wrote: I love it when some pundit