Subj : Re: 10Gb Ethernet is now
To   : Weatherman
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Feb 15 2025 10:03:58

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 We> I'm in a rural area, the ONLY options are either point to point
 We> wireless or some 5G service from a cell provider.  Obviously I went
 We> with the point to point wireless option, where I'm lucky to get 75 Mb/s
 We> downloads and 20 Mb/s upload speeds.  When I lived in town we did have
 We> fiber service with 300 Mb/s which I sorely miss.

 I did wireless for a company back in the 2000s in Verizon territory.
 Verizon was able to provide DSL to our next-door neighbor, but
 determined we were not eligible.

 This was in Marin county - there's a big mountain in the middle of the
 county, and the wireless provider was across the street. Worked OK, but
 was fidgety as hell, considering I could see the other end of the
 wireless leg.

 It got weird when they wanted access to my router, despite them having
 an end-point. The owner kept insisting "he didn't need this job", and
 he'd rather be fishing. I couldn't get out of there fast enough.

 I had a Netopia router with a serial interface. When we moved and went
 to DSL, I reached out to them, and they sent me an ethernet interface
 for the router, a new badge and renewed the warranty on the router.
 Very cool. They were a local company based in Alameda, CA. I was sad to
 see them go.





 We> The current service "suffices."  We're able to stream to 4 TVs in HD
 We> including one that's 4K.  Gaming is usually good.  I work from home,
 We> but most of what I do is either over an ssh connection or browser based
 We> over a VLAN.  For the most part it does what I need it to do.  Given
 We> the alternatives, I'd rather live out here on my 15+ acres with 50-100
 We> Mb/s service than be in town...





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