[181580] in North American Network Operators' Group
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Stokes)
Sun Jun 28 23:42:58 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Keith Stokes <keiths@neilltech.com>
To: Peter Kristolaitis <alter3d@alter3d.ca>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 03:38:20 +0000
In-Reply-To: <558E237F.1060602@alter3d.ca>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Use wireless. There are reasonably priced point to point bridges available.
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Keith Stokes
> On Jun 26, 2015, at 11:18 PM, Peter Kristolaitis <alter3d@alter3d.ca> wro=
te:
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>> On 6/26/2015 7:26 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
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>>> On 26 Jun 2015, at 15:04, Hank Disuko wrote:
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>>> Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of Toro=
nto with the World's Fastest Internet=99.
>>> http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-to=
ronto-worlds-fastest-internet.html=20
>>=20
>> Bell Canada is in the business of defending the current regulatory regim=
e from claims that internet speeds are slow, or that investment by incumben=
ts in the last mile is lacking, or that it ought to be required to share it=
s access network with competitors. Read the press with that context in mind=
.
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>> There's cooperative, rural broadband in the UK [1] that offers 10G acces=
s to farms at a lower price than Bell charges for some satellite TV bundles=
. I don't think anybody need waste any cycles persuading other people here =
that the "fastest internet" claims are not aligned precisely with the kind =
reality you find even on this list.
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>> Joe
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>> [1] http://b4rn.org.uk
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> And defend the current regulatory regime well they do. I live literally =
minutes outside of the Ottawa urban area and I have as choices for network =
connectivity either LoS wireless or satellite. I can, however, stand at the=
end of my driveway and look in EITHER direction to see houses that can get=
cable service, yet none of the incumbents are willing to service my little=
stretch of road (affecting me and ~5 neighbours).
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> I'm told by the neighbours (I just moved here) that they've been bugging =
the incumbents for YEARS and getting no traction at all. I'm thinking of pr=
icing out a fiber run and running a little local co-op network access provi=
der for me and the neighbours, but I suspect that install costs might nix t=
hat idea.
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> (For extra fun, I was told by one of the incumbents that my address was s=
erviceable with up to 150Mbps cable before I purchased the property. Then =
when I took possession and tried to get service set up -- nope, sorry. But=
that's a whole other story...)
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