</lurk> I will out an old member of list, not myself, he still runs Old Cisco (ASA managed, “fully”, might be debatable) firewall, capable of full duplex 100 Mbs, on -both- sides. 😃 (WHOA) His optic provider gave him a converter between the full optic GigE run into his house, and the 100 FD at the ASA. (It was a special deal, free installation and more reliable than the competitor) (Both were actually =true=, can you imagine ?)
He runs a business in his basement that monitors several well known big services his business relies upon 24x7x365, for over 25 years. All interruptions are noticed (within reason) and monitored, logged and alarmed accordingly. He and his wife has raised 2 children through college, (one’s on his MBA), his retirement business.. -everyone- streams, there is no “cable” per se, he “cut the wire” when it was fashionable…. and their children would rather video chat than walk across the room, or go out somewhere. He adores telling me about how salespeople are *constantly* calling him to upgrade the service. “Why, we can fit 5GigE down to you now!” said the salesperson with garish clothes and floppy clown feet. “You just *can’t* live without it!” “thump-thump” goes those feet….. He always asks them for the packet loss ratio on the existing link….. the call sorta ends after that. FWIW, he always starts this story out with a snicker, and some latest and greatest gourmet drink..… :-P <lurk> Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows From: Mike Hammett via NANOG<mailto:nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2022 4:20 PM To: Aaron Wendel<mailto:aa...@wholesaleinternet.net> Cc: nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Most households have no practical use for more than 25 megs. More is better, but let's not just throw money into a fire because of a marketing machine. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com From: "Aaron Wendel" <aa...@wholesaleinternet.net> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, May 23, 2022 1:49:13 PM Subject: Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household will need more than a gig within 5 years. Why not just jump it to a gig or more? On 5/23/2022 1:40 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0 > > > The Federal Communications Commission voted [May 19, 2022] to seek > comment on a proposal to provide additional universal service support > to certain rural carriers in exchange for increasing deployment to > more locations at higher speeds. The proposal would make changes to > the Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM) program, with the > goal of achieving widespread deployment of faster 100/20 Mbps > broadband service throughout the rural areas served by rural carriers > currently receiving A-CAM support. >
