>
>> Ashland's fiberoptic network made it to CNN today:
>>
>> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,30293,00.html?st.ne.fd.gif.a
>
>Interesting. I have a similar networking environment here in my small
>town, thanks to a federal gov't program that uses our county as a sort of
>test-bed for trying out leading-edge telecomm technologies.
Brent wrote:
>While it doesn't pay any dividends for me personally as an end-user -- I
>use the same ol' dial-up as anyone else -- our libraries, hospitals,
>municipal councils and whatnot are soon going to be wired like nowhere
>else in the country. All on the taxpayer's dime <g>
>
>More power to Ashland for making the investment in a networked future
>directly -- sounds a little risky, to read the C|Net piece, but no doubt in a
>few years everyone will be clammering to claim they thought of it first.
Unfortunately we don't benefit from the first phase either, though anyone
who lives or has an office along the first loop can get hooked up. Though
we can see the utility poles it'll run on just 1/4 mile from our house, the
City isn't willing to dig up the street just to run a line to our house.
So, it may be several years before we can benefit. Meanwhile, we plod along
at 28.8. Our service provider won't even upgrade to 33.6, and since we get
all our webhosting and dialup on trade (and we're too cheap to pay real
money), we're kinda stuck. Not a big deal, since we mostly use it for email
anyway.
Suz
Suz
Suzanne Stephens, Dave Stephens Design; Ashland, Oregon
541-552-1190, 541-552-1192 http://www.KickassDesign.com/
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