RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-23 Thread Frank Bulk
: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:38 PM To: Roland Dobbins Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) On 13 Mar 2007, at 20:31, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Daniel Senie wrote: A universal service charge could be applied to all bills

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-20 Thread Andy Davidson
On 13 Mar 2007, at 20:31, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Daniel Senie wrote: A universal service charge could be applied to all bills, with the funds going to subsidize rural areas. This is already done in the U.S., to no discernible effect. That isn't *quite*

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-15 Thread Frank Bulk
] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) USF has made it possible for us to serve DSL to almost every customer in our exchanges. I'm glad to hear it - the reports of how that fund is (un)used are almost overwhelmingly negative, I'm glad

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-15 Thread Jamie Bowden
Bowden; NANOG list Subject: RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Jamie: Who is your ILEC? If you look at Iowa, which has move than 150 independent telephone companies, the broadband penetration rate exceeds 90% http://www.state.ia.us/government/com/util

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Joel Jaeggli wrote: sell you 100/24 vdsl2 for around 80euro a month. 100/10 over CAT5 ethernet (and also 100/100) is available here in Sweden for around $35+tax in quite a lot of places. Weirdly enough it's more commonly available in places where the real estate owner

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 3/13/07, Daniel Senie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do longer-range wireless technologies like WiMAX potentially impact the equation? If cell phone companies have not covered an area, what makes you think WiMAX is a magic solution? How well does WiMAX work to cover hilly, forested, rural

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 3/14/07, Mike Hammett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Current wireless technologies have no problem with the rural aspect, just the hills and foliage. Get on a tall enough tower in a remote enough area, you can have quite a range on your wireless coverage. I'm not sure of the cost of a cell

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread michael.dillon
I do admit that I haven't been keeping up on BPL technology lately, as I am not in [and know only one person living in] an area where power lines are the only cabled connection to the world. My point was more that there are areas where it's simply impractical to put out many of the

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mar 14, 2007, at 3:02 AM, David Lesher wrote: {re: BPL will bring competition...} I am totally baffled by all the hype over BPL. What is true is the utilities would wet their pants over having same. Not for offering Internet access, but so they could read every electric meter in

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Broadband-over-powerlines, like its cousin ethernet-over-domestic wiring, is one of those things that gets discovered every three years, hyped, oohed and aahed over, then disappears. Reason: it's a solution looking for a problem, for the reasons given above. Why not, rather than try to kludge

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Mike Hammett
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:45 AM To: Joe Abley Cc: Todd Vierling; Roland Dobbins; NANOG list Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:15:30 EDT, Joe Abley said

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Mike Hammett
] On Behalf Of Mikael Abrahamsson Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:05 AM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Joel Jaeggli wrote: sell you 100/24 vdsl2 for around 80euro a month. 100/10 over CAT5 ethernet (and also 100/100

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Mike Hammett
Harrowell Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 4:39 AM To: Daniel Senie Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) On 3/13/07, Daniel Senie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do longer-range wireless technologies like WiMAX potentially impact

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread John Levine
A universal service charge could be applied to all bills, with the funds going to subsidize rural areas. This is already done in the U.S., to no discernible effect. I dunno. My rural ILEC which is up to its armpits in USF money, sells me a T1 for $190/mo plus tax. (Plus what their captive

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread John Levine
The system I looked at had fiber along the high voltage lines anyway, to get enough bandwidth to the neighborhood - i.e., fiber to the neighborhood, plus equipment there to put the data onto the copper. After that, each transformer requires a shunt. Therefore, each transformer requires a

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Bora Akyol
content that is not available in the US, is there another choice? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Vierling Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:58 AM To: Roland Dobbins Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 14, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Bora Akyol wrote: Unfortunately, neither the telcos nor the cable companies quite get this. They are stuck to their channels and everything is priced in terms of channels. To be fair, part of this onus is on the content developers themselves - after all, it's

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Frank Bulk
Could you please clarify that comment? USF has made it possible for us to serve DSL to almost every customer in our exchanges. Frank -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:50 AM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 14, 2007, at 8:23 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: USF has made it possible for us to serve DSL to almost every customer in our exchanges. I'm glad to hear it - the reports of how that fund is (un)used are almost overwhelmingly negative, I'm glad some folks, somewhere are benefiting from

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Gadi Evron
On funsec we have had a discussion on broadband providers and bandwidth limitations, pretty much what we rehearsed here. Michael brought up an interesting case from a decade ago, which speaks of some litigation issues we did not discuss. It is also interesting to hear his view as a client on

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Todd Vierling
On 3/13/07, Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On funsec we have had a discussion on broadband providers and bandwidth limitations, pretty much what we rehearsed here. Critical mass is approaching. There's only so long that North American consumers can be held back from bandwidth-hogging

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Todd Vierling wrote: Both cable and DSL providers are about to have a very loud wake-up call, and from here, I see absolutely zero uptake of newer technology and infrastructure to offset the inevitable. not that I'm arguing (really) but what wakeup call? where is the

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to the end user? BitTorrent. ; And on-demand DVR-type things which I believe will grow in popularity. Of course, most of those are overlays which the SPs themselves don't

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Jeff Shultz
Alexander Harrowell wrote: On 3/13/07, Todd Vierling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Critical mass is approaching. There's only so long that North American consumers can be held back from bandwidth-hogging applications and downloads while parts of the world have long since upgraded to 10Mbit/s

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to the end user? BitTorrent. which uses all available bandwidth on the user link, and can/does play nicely with other user

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Peter Corlett
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:27:04AM -0700, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: [...] what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to the end user? BitTorrent. The download speed is however limited by the upload speed of the peers, which

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Jack Bates
Jeff Shultz wrote: Alexander Harrowell wrote: 768 ain't broadband. Buy Cisco, Alcatel, and Akamai stock! If you don't like it, you can always return to dialup. It certainly is - just ask the CALEA folks and as for who is pushing the bandwidth curve, for the most part it seems to be

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 13-Mar-2007, at 11:27, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to the end user? BitTorrent. So long as most torrent clients are used to share content illicitly, that doesn't sound like

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:52:57PM +, Peter Corlett wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:27:04AM -0700, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: [...] what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to the end user? BitTorrent. The

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 13, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Joe Abley wrote: So long as most torrent clients are used to share content illicitly, that doesn't sound like much of a business driver for the DSL/CATV ISP. And so long as the average user doesn't have an alternative provider which gives better torrent

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread David Meyer
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:45:07PM +, Chris L. Morrow wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to the end user? BitTorrent. which uses all

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Peter Corlett
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:13:01AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...] Ideally that's how it's supposed to work, but isn't how it works as of present-day. Speaking solely about the BitTorrent protocol, upstream does not affect downstream speed. In fact, there's a BitTorrent client out there

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Mills, Charles
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Abley Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:11 PM To: Roland Dobbins Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) Building high-capacity access to the home

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Jack Bates wrote: Jeff Shultz wrote: Alexander Harrowell wrote: 768 ain't broadband. Buy Cisco, Alcatel, and Akamai stock! If you don't like it, you can always return to dialup. It certainly is - just ask the CALEA folks and as for who is pushing the bandwidth curve, for the

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Todd Vierling
On 3/13/07, Roland Dobbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to the end user? BitTorrent. ; Smiley highly appropriate there. The cultural diversity of the Internet-using population simply isn't capable of making BT a practical

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Jack Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to blame the idiots that decided that of the signal range to be used on copper for dsl, only a certain amount would be dedicated to upload instead of negotiating. What on earth do I want to do with 24Mb down and 1Mb up? Can't I have 12 and

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Matthew F. Ringel
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:34:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:45:07 -, Chris L. Morrow said: If there were then I bet $TELCO || $CABLECO would drop prices and speed up links... since there isn't I think we're all lucky we're not still using a 110baud coupler

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Senie
At 12:15 PM 3/13/2007, Neil J. McRae wrote: Someone please tell me there's a valid reason why the download range couldn't be variable and negotiated There are several valid reasons, but with newer modulations more bandwidth upstream is more and more of a reality. Now if we could just turn

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Todd Vierling
On 3/13/07, Jack Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In US metropolitan areas we are seeing a lot more fiber to the home. That depends highly on your location. Additionally, many FTTH deployments (*cough*some parts of a company with former ticker symbol T*wheeze*) are artificially rate limited to

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 13, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Matthew F. Ringel wrote: DSL[1] and DOCSIS require active cooperation from the carrier. Ergo, tech advancement in the carrier-assisted data transport arena is dependent on the carrier cooperating. Are infrastructure build-out costs any less of an issue for

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 13, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Todd Vierling wrote: There are other technologies better suited to rural deployment, such as satellite, powerline, some cable, or even re-use of the previous generation's ADSL gear once metro areas are upgraded. Or something like WiMAX?

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Roland Dobbins wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Daniel Senie wrote: As with the deployment of telephone service a century ago, the ubiquitious availability of broadband service will require government involvement in the form of fees on some and subsidies for others (might be a good

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Todd Vierling wrote: Critical mass is approaching. There's only so long that North American consumers can be held back from bandwidth-hogging applications and downloads while parts of the world have long since upgraded to 10Mbit/s bidirectional (and beyond) consumer-grade

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Senie
At 01:33 PM 3/13/2007, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Daniel Senie wrote: As with the deployment of telephone service a century ago, the ubiquitious availability of broadband service will require government involvement in the form of fees on some and subsidies for

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Todd Vierling
On 3/13/07, Todd Vierling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/13/07, Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If many of US consumers were already buying the biggest pipe and were willing to pay even more for even higher speeds; would we be having this discussion? Or is the reality that US consumers

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread andrew2
Sean Donelan wrote: Several US Providers are very happy to sell 1Gbps and even 10Gbps to anyone in major (i.e. NFL/top 30) cities, but not at $14.95/month. Sure, as long as you're willing to fork over the cash for CPE capable of handling OC-XX linecards. The service cost is hardly the only

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 13-Mar-2007, at 14:15, Todd Vierling wrote: Depends on how rural the area is. Some parts of the US have problematic terrain and *very* sparse population; there, the cost would far outweigh the subscriber uptake. Should someone want bandwidth in such an area, powerline or satellite are

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Senie
At 02:15 PM 3/13/2007, Todd Vierling wrote: On 3/13/07, Roland Dobbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are other technologies better suited to rural deployment, such as satellite, powerline, some cable, or even re-use of the previous generation's ADSL gear once metro areas are upgraded.

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Alex Rubenstein
And on-demand DVR-type things which I believe will grow in popularity. Of course, most of those are overlays which the SPs themselves don't offer; when they wish to do so, it'll become an issue, IMHO. Which, by the way, is hitting main stream. Amazon Unbox.

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we're worrying about FTTH when some of the largest carriers are still not capable of delivering ethernet handoffs in some of those same top 30 cities. so... 'ethernet handoff' to me is 'just another access media'. I had asked at one point in time

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Todd Vierling
On 3/13/07, Daniel Senie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've mentioned powerline a few times. Care to expand on the business case for BPL? I do admit that I haven't been keeping up on BPL technology lately, as I am not in [and know only one person living in] an area where power lines are the only

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:50:43 EDT, Joe Abley said: However, just because you're remote doesn't mean that there aren't options in the last mile, so long as you're prepared to do something rather than just complain about others not doing it. The island of Niue in the South Pacific has had

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Mike Hammett
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Vierling Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:15 PM To: Roland Dobbins Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) On 3/13/07, Roland Dobbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are other technologies

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Mike Hammett
on 3 bands is under $10k. --Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Senie Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd) At 01:33 PM 3/13/2007

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Scott Weeks wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to the end user? Getting in late here... For us in Hawaii IPTV will drive that. for the

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Scott Weeks
-- On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to the end user? For us in Hawaii IPTV will drive that. for the service from the provider, or from

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 13-Mar-2007, at 18:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keeping this in perspective, the CIA Factbook says that Niue had a population of 2,166 in July 2006, an area of 100 square miles (1.5 times the size of Wash DC), and a highest elevation of a whole whopping 250 feet. They used to have a

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Joel Jaeggli wrote: ... I would like to blame the idiots that decided that of the signal range to be used on copper for dsl, only a certain amount would be dedicated to upload instead of negotiating. What on earth do I want to do with 24Mb down and 1Mb up? Can't I have 12

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:15:30 EDT, Joe Abley said: This conversation has suddenly become very weird. I suggest you go and spend a year on Niue before you decide to make claims that anywhere in the US is as remote (and, for the record, there are no cables which land in Niue, fat or