Mitch Pirtle wrote:
Was getting a ride from a guy who owned a communications services company, and we discussed megabit services in Brooklyn. He mentioned that Brooklyn was notorious for having totally substandard wiring running down poles between all the houses and buildings, and that it was a logistics nightmare for Verizon to manage making upgrades nearly impossible - and the result is that pretty much nobody in the city can get more than typical 1.5MBps DSL. Better chances for faster service in Cambodia.
That is the part that I still don't get as a foreigner. Why is most of the infrastructure here in the US in such a bad state? I can see nailing wires to poles like Edison did it in the remote, rural areas, but in Brooklyn?? Why isn't all wiring underground where it won't come down during the slightest storm? And why do all the streets have more potholes than markings when the entire US economy is built around individual traffic and trucking everything across the country, although using rail is so much more efficient....but the rail lines are in horrible shape as well. Last week I heard that one third of the NYC sewer system is from the 1850s, while the rest is mainly from the 1930s, and all parts are crumbling. And why do US schools spend more than twice per student compared to schools in Europe, but get results that are noticably worse? I don't say there is no (good) reason for all that, I just can't figure out which one that could be. UTP doesn't have the bandwith like coax does, but in the biggest economy in the world (maybe second by now behind China) the question should be from which of the five competitors do I buy fiber service. I agree that chances for faster service may be better in Cambodia, but it shows that deregulating the markets for the benefit of the consumers just turned out to be a whole bunch of blahblah.
That said, I like what TWC has to offer...if it works. I do need to point out that their support just plain sucks, yet it is still better than Verizon's.
Enough of the mid day rant.... ;) David _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
