I wish I knew about this. I would have been there to pick up another 3 minutes from where you left off. We could have gotten a lot of UUGers there and really taught them a thing or two!
Robert On 6/4/08 2:20 AM, "Todd Millecam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just thought I'd let you know--I went to the Provo city council > meeting last night to discuss the sale of iProvo to Broadweave > Networks. > There's been some recent financial trouble with the iProvo network--and > they're looking to sell it for roughly $4,000,000. As you might > know--there has been some very different opinions as to the mayor's > quick decision to sell the fiber optic lines into the private sector. > Most people who are politically active are in favor of this sale, but > not in the way it's being sold. > > Oh, and to let you know--Mstar told city council that they would make > them a better offer than Broadweave. I stood before them right before > the Mstar representative and said, "Whether you keep the network or not, > I believe that the financial troubles of the iProvo network are caused > by a failure of ISPs to give a minimum level of service to their > customers. There have been times where they will throttle a person's > uplink speed down to 200kbps on certain protocols--when a fiber optic > line is capable of so much more. Broadweave has not earned my > trust--and I have no reason to subscribe to lines owned by them. I have > other friends who have moved to coaxial cable because of this failure to > provide adequate service. > "There needs to be a legal minimum requirement set on bandwidth, both > uplink and downlink for all ports, packets, and protocols." > The council asked me what I thought a reasonable minimum bandwidth > would be. I told them a 2mbps is more than a reasonable minimum on a > fiber optic line--but that it would have to increase over time as the > technologies improve. I also told them that it is not unreasonable to > provide, at this time, 50mbps over a fiber optic line. > I got a bit of an applause--which was quickly silenced because it was > against city-council procedures. > I would've said more about how distributed networking is the way of the > future, but each person was limited to 3 minutes. > Where do you stand on this issue? > > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences Computer Support Brigham Young University [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801)422-1882 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
