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Giftzwerg wrote:

> > You could always move
>
> Don't even smile. When my wife and I were looking to move a few
years
> ago, "broadband access" was the *one* criterion I put in my "absolute

> dealbreakers" column as we were considering properties.

Similar story : when we build our house I insisted that *every* room
must have 2 empty plastic pipes/conduits of half an inch diameter
connecting it with the garage. This to make it future-proof 'cause who
knew what technology you would be using 10 years in the future to wire
the house - telephone, coax, fiber optics or some new
cable-type-yet-to-be-invented. There were costs involved, but I didn't
care *knowing* it was a good investment ...

Of course these morons had to invent something new : wireless ! - so
now I've got a wireless broadband connection and a garage where a dozen
and a half empty conduits emerge from the walls, much to the amazement
of everyone who sees them ... <sigh>

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

 

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In article <1108624048.255090.193900@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
eddysterckx@hotmail.com says...

> > Aww, now that's just cruel - kinda like every month when I go to the
> > Sprint website to pay my phone bill online, and they have this little
> > button that says, "Click here to see if Sprint DSL is available where
> > you live," but whenever I click it the answer is always, "Not yet!"
>
> You could always move

Don't even smile. When my wife and I were looking to move a few years
ago, "broadband access" was the *one* criterion I put in my "absolute
dealbreakers" column as we were considering properties. It took a
couple of snarls before realtors took that seriously[1], but pretty soon
they got the message and started making inquiries of local providers
before bothering me.

[1] Broadband, it seemed, was always going to appear at properties
"Real Soon Now." Here in Podunk, that could be at the next glaciation.

--
Giftzwerg
***
"Long before a faculty lounge in Islamabad or Riyadh realizes it
can build a bomb alone and secretly, the same thought will have
occurred to individuals in Tel Aviv, New Delhi or Palo Alto.
Any Islamic group that believes it can attack New York deniably
should convince itself that no similar group can nuke Mecca at
the height of the pilgrim season."
- Wretchard, The Belmont Club

 

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In article <1108645086.739593.71240@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
eddysterckx@hotmail.com says...

> > Don't even smile. When my wife and I were looking to move a few
> years
> > ago, "broadband access" was the *one* criterion I put in my "absolute
>
> > dealbreakers" column as we were considering properties.
>
> Similar story : when we build our house I insisted that *every* room
> must have 2 empty plastic pipes/conduits of half an inch diameter
> connecting it with the garage. This to make it future-proof 'cause who
> knew what technology you would be using 10 years in the future to wire
> the house - telephone, coax, fiber optics or some new
> cable-type-yet-to-be-invented. There were costs involved, but I didn't
> care *knowing* it was a good investment ...
>
> Of course these morons had to invent something new : wireless ! - so
> now I've got a wireless broadband connection and a garage where a dozen
> and a half empty conduits emerge from the walls, much to the amazement
> of everyone who sees them ... <sigh>

They'll stop staring when The Next Big Thing comes along, and it's three
years before the boffins at <wireless company> manage to whelp an
affordable, secure, equivalently-performing wireless solution. But your
cable races can be filled with cheap, effective <whatever> on Day 1.

When we settled on a property, I did almost the same thing; I wired for
Cat5 before we moved in, and had the cable guy leave fish-pulls at all
the wallplates and junctions. I've been using those cables for a half-
dozen years now, and it's only within the last couple of years that I've
been sanguine about wireless.

--
Giftzwerg
***
"Long before a faculty lounge in Islamabad or Riyadh realizes it
can build a bomb alone and secretly, the same thought will have
occurred to individuals in Tel Aviv, New Delhi or Palo Alto.
Any Islamic group that believes it can attack New York deniably
should convince itself that no similar group can nuke Mecca at
the height of the pilgrim season."
- Wretchard, The Belmont Club

 

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On 16 Feb 2005 23:07:28 -0800, "eddysterckx@hotmail.com" wrote:

>John Smith wrote:
>> Aww, now that's just cruel - kinda like every month when I go to the
>> Sprint website to pay my phone bill online, and they have this little
>> button that says, "Click here to see if Sprint DSL is available where
>> you live," but whenever I click it the answer is always, "Not yet!"
>
>You could always move

Not likely. I've lived on this land since I was 15 years old, except
for temporary absences for college, grad school, etc. I built the
house I live in now, and I like it here. They'll get a broadband cable
out this way eventually - I just hope it doesn't require one of my
neighbors subdividing his farm to get that done, as I'd rather look
out the window at woods and pastures than at other people's houses.

Or maybe I'll finally convince my business partner that I need one of
those satellite connections for the online aspects of my work. Yeah, I
need it for =work=, that's the ticket...

>> yeah, so I'm catching up on reading old posts, so sue me
>
>It took the posts *that* long to get through your modem ??? - man, I
>pity you

Yeah, you guys need to post more, and faster, so the new posts will
push the older stuff through the wires faster.

John

 

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John Smith wrote:
> Or maybe I'll finally convince my business partner that I need one of
> those satellite connections for the online aspects of my work. Yeah,
I
> need it for =work=, that's the ticket...

Well, my connection is paid by the company used the same flimsy
excuses like "need it for research and to keep up to date". A good
argument is also that it's tax deductable which essentially means
companies get it at half-price.

> >> yeah, so I'm catching up on reading old posts, so sue me
> >
> >It took the posts *that* long to get through your modem ??? - man, I
> >pity you
>
> Yeah, you guys need to post more, and faster, so the new posts will
> push the older stuff through the wires faster.

Have you tried straightening out your modem cable ? - if there are
kinks in it it will let the 0's pass just fine, but the 1's might get
stuck. A few visits to alt.fat.food also have a positive effect as your
cable gets greased in the process.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

 

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"Giftzwerg" <giftzwerg999@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c7e587b7052f70498a1ad@news-east.giganews.com...
>
> [1] Broadband, it seemed, was always going to appear at properties
> "Real Soon Now." Here in Podunk, that could be at the next glaciation.
>

Isn't, by definition, Podunk in the middle of the next glaciations? <grin
duck & run>

--
Multiversal Mercenaries. You name it, we kill it. Any time, any reality.

 

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In article <LXgRd.7354$m31.90999@typhoon.sonic.net>, dtravel@sonic.net
says...

> > [1] Broadband, it seemed, was always going to appear at properties
> > "Real Soon Now." Here in Podunk, that could be at the next glaciation.
> >
>
> Isn't, by definition, Podunk in the middle of the next glaciations? <grin
> duck & run>

This glaciation is rather mild, thus far. Losing Tuvalu is a small
price to pay for warmer winters; time to go use some spray deodorant and
burn another cord of wood.



--
Giftzwerg
***
"I was reading an op-ed piece by Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post,
and he began by quoting Jon Stewart, the comedian, who said, 'We did it!
We had the election. And now we can say to Iraq, "Goodbye!"'

The words 'We did it!' brought me up short. I thought, 'What do you
mean, *we*?'

It will be just like the Cold War, I think. George W. Bush and his
allies will make progress in the Middle East, and then, with selective
amnesia, those who fought Bush & Co. tooth and nail will say, 'We,
we, we.' We liberalized Afghanistan, we liberalized Iraq, blah, blah,
blah.

If it had been up to Jon Stewart and his ilk, that election in Iraq
would never have taken place."
- Jay Nordlinger