[161143] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Feb 26 23:07:22 2013
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:03:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <BC160355-D8FC-4EA7-AB70-4B9B5917107F@delong.com>
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---- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
[ quoting me ]
> > Ironically, I suspect that it's for the same reason that East Germany has
> > right up to the minute telephony services these days, while West German is
> > still sucking hind tit:
> >
> > The big properties are, over all, likely to skew somewhat older in
> > building construction, and because of that, they're not built/wired
> > for the internal transport; too much rebar in the walls blocking
> > wifi and stuff like that.
A comment off list pointed out to me that sometimes, it's the reverse:
The property jumped on-board in the late nineties, putting in a system
worthy of the next decade...
and has never updated it, cause it's "good enough".
Cheers,
-- jr 'sorry to hijack your post to quote myself, Owen' a
--
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
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