Re: Skitt: Help with Bay Area broadband info

"Don Phillipson" <d.phillipsonSPAMBLOCK@xxxxxx> writes:
2. "Broadband" used to mean cable service, which
requires that a cable serve the subscriber's address.

This is a pet peeve of mine, and I don't know how it got started.
Broadband is one of those terms that has been defined a million times,
for a million different purposes, but I never could figure out how you
could define "broadband" so that it included cable internet, but not,
say, DSL, ISDN, or a T-1. To the best of my knowledge, it was purely
the result of cable ISPs advertising their services as "broadband" and
other technologies, inexplicably, not.

(Wireless broadband is cheap for carriers because it uses
existing cell phone towers i.e. requires no new hardware.

Well, no, it requires a lot of new hardware; it's just that they can
hang it off an existing tower, which saves you lots of money. You
need new antennae on the cell towers that are tuned to whatever
frequencies your wireless internet connection uses, you need some
terminal interface to connect it to the Internet, and of course, you
need an Internet connection, none of which are necessarily going to be
on your cell tower to start with (or else they won't be provisioned at
the level needed to support the wireless connections, as is likely in
the case of Internet connections). Plus you are likely to need new
hardware in your NOC to support the new feed.

-=Eric
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