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Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (-Hammer-)
Wed Jun 22 16:52:57 2011

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:51:51 -0500
From: -Hammer- <bhmccie@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <B6F78A1448A1476BB354E466FE8A9F63@owner59e1f1502>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

If you have a 100mbps video connection and you can't handle a video 
conference in parallel with Dexter you may have bigger issues. :)

-Hammer-



On 06/22/2011 03:45 PM, Michael Painter wrote:
> Landon Stewart wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If you have a 100 mbps broadband connection and your toddlers are 
>>> slowing
>>> down your video conference call with your boss by watching the 
>>> newest Dexter
>>> (hah!). Then your *need* can be easily satisfied by telling your 
>>> toddlers to
>>> cut the crap for a while. Sure it'd be nice if your toddlers could 
>>> watch
>>> Dexter kill another victim whilst you were having a smooth video 
>>> conference
>>> talk with your boss, but it's not necessary.
>>>
>>
>> +1 best comment I've read all day  :-D
>
> I just *have* to say, "me too"...and as Jeroen says, some things work 
> fine just the way they are.
> I waited 30+ years to be able to see the puck in a Hockey game via OTA 
> Broadcast HDTV, and now Genachowski wants to use that spectrum so I 
> can watch the game on a 3x3 in. screen.<sigh>
>

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