[SATLUG] RoadRunner Rubbish

[Justizin]

On 11/2/06, David Kowis <dkowis at shlrm.org> wrote:
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> Jeremy Mann wrote:
> > On 11/2/06, Justizin <justizin at siggraph.org> wrote:
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> >> I think, basically, he's like:
> >>
> >>   "I want fiber at my house, but what's the point of using BitTorrent
> >> if you don't have fiber at your house, too?"
> >
> > Speaking of fiber to the curb, my Dad lives up in the hill country and
> > he told me the other day that GVTC is about to roll out a fiber to the
> > curb service in Comal county.
> >
>
> Just in case you didn't know, ATT is rolling fiber to the house in new
> subdivisions in San Antonio. I've got it ;) (okay, I'll stop rubbing it
> in now)
>
> Not that I can use the fiber to it's fullest. They've got to work out
> the legislation so that they can do IPTV (yes, it is cable damnit, and
> you cannot track what I watch, how long i watch it for, and how often I
> watch.) I've got approx 4mbit down and 2.5mbit up. According to the

Why can't they track your viewing habits?  Do you use Google? ;)

I trust Google more than AT&T, though.  They have a recent track
record of refusing aggressive, but invalid, governmental requests for
private data, which is probably less of a concern with viewing data
than email and search history, anyway.

I bet my left pinky toe that TWC's digital cable already logs your
viewing habits.  Hey, if my cable bill somehow includes the cost of
paying people to keep ratings diaries and a linux box can do it, more
power.  Offerings would improve, as well, because really you only get
ratings from people who happen, for some reason, to be willing to
personally record and share everything they watch by hand.

> techs that I spoke to that were setting it all up, they've planned for
> 28mb/s for each house:
> 20mbit for internets
> 8mbit for IPTV
> some insignificant kbits for a phone line

interested to know how many kbits, since a voice channel is 64k..

> It'd be great if they'd get their shit in gear.
>
> Oh, I'm paying 80 a month for this, because I wanted a static IP. I
> couldn't get just one, however, I had to get 5. Even though I only
> needed one. There's a reason we've got IP shortages.... Stupid ISPs.

Don't get me started. ;)

That said, IBM has like two Class A subnets and they provision a class
C to a room with 20 computers.

The fact is, IP is a hardwired namespace, you don't want a namespace
to be full, and even if it's filling up, it's impractical to adjust
your usage of it to accommodate for that.

If you'd ever stared a list of 100k IPs tied to 10,000 cat5 cables in
the face, though, you'd never be the same.  Then again, is it somehow
*more* ethical to demand an increase of power consumption for each IP,
or is it a Good Thing(tm) that today's machines can do the work of ten
or more enigmas? ;d

> This kinda trailed on into a rant type thing, so I'm going to cut it off
> now.

By all means, continue!

Okay, don't listen to my advice. ;d

-- 
Justizin, Independent Interactivity Architect
ACM SIGGRAPH SysMgr, Reporter
http://www.siggraph.org/