11.8 pop quiz - 83 people. $3000 up front, $10/mo or so, how do we get
fast net?
\_ But where?
\_ <DEAD>www.bandwidthcoop.com<DEAD>
\_ Do you live in the USCA Co-ops? Make it a capital expense off your
house's long term improvements budget and run as much net as you
can get away with which should "include future bandwidth growth
needs and scalability as high bandwidth content becomes more
common and even required on the net". You can get the Central
Level to eat %100 of the up front cost and probably most or even
all of the monthly charges if you do it right. -USCA Veteran
\_ the USCA? Ethernet jacks in every room? "It can't be done."
(or prove me wrong)
\_ weren't they gonna do this in cloyne, what, 4 years ago? 5?
\_ It can be done. Go read the alumni newsletters on their site.
(PDF). Gordon Moore of Intel is a USCA Alum and Intel is
donating some unspecified design and architecture skills to
the project. Wouldn't be surprised if they threw some hardware
at it as well. You'll be proven wrong. Probably not this year
as the USCA is *s-l-o-w* but probably in the next 3 or 4 years.
\_ unless the maintenance manager sells all the stuff to buy
speed. given the size of your co-op i think i know which
one youre in and i think you know what i'm talking about.
you can buy alot of 8-balls for the price of a p-III.
\_ The capital improvements budget is drug free. -USCA Vet.
\_ "Super."
(As you can see, I'm expressing the same wary hopefulness
I put into the Cal football team.)
\_ Just one more way to fluff workshift hours as the Computer
Manager and the Computer Manager's two five hour/week
assistants. No experience required, of course. A shared
network and a sniffer might prove interesting in most of
the houses.
\_ Why when switches are so cheap nowadays? --dim
\_ Because one hub per floor or per building or
whatever would add so much more grease to the
gossip mill. Not like everyone doesn't already
know who cheats on who with who but it could add
a whole new dimension to it. |
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