Secrets of the City

The picture of the Basillica they decided to use for us is weird. I don’t remember it looking so marbley and Pantheon-like.

It’s time to put “wired” to rest with “next-gen” as words related to cutting edge technology.

Monolithic computers are dead, intelligence is in the network, and the networks aren’t so wired anymore.

Congratulations to Atlanta taking the top spot. It’s sort of an adopted home town for The Rat.

Sure, Champs:

Were you a School Marm in another life?

Rat, it would only be school-marmy to point out that more than half of the dozen-plus points that most Internet connections pass through are interconnected not by metal wire but fiber optic strands of glass.

The point is that wires are passe, and it’s ironic that such an anachronism is still used to describe something as cutting edge.

The point is that wires are passe

The Rat’s “wireless” connection in his house has telephone jack wire, an Ethernet wire. Router plug in, Fax plug in.

Wireless is not.

Dare I point out that this is the first time I commented to this post from a system with any sort of external wires?

Laptop + WiFi, phone + GPRS. You are behind the times. Wires are out.

You are behind the times. Well, you heard him…he does admire Atlanta.

one time I stuck my finger in light socket and it really hurt

I read somewhere that Qwest is working on it’s fiber to home service for the metro area. Anyone no anything about that?

They’re looking at doing some things in Eagan, I know. From what I understand, they want to plug everyone into some sort of node so they can get DSL at twice the speed.

I should hope that the network is more than double the speed, because it doesn’t really justify the cost.

Out of curiosity, did Qwest plan on this service before or after they tried to lobby their way out of competition from the city’s (and many others) municipal wireless project?

Is that the same Qwest that managed to give my 256k DSL a speed bump to 640k, for free, right as Time Warner Cable was about to roll out RoadRunner?

Okay, I guess it’s not fiber to home but rather fiber to “neighborhood distribution points.” It will bring max speeds up from 7mbps to 20mbps.

Qwest plans $300 million in fiber-optic upgrades

Here’s news that should make mass-transit loving Hippies like Kevin happy, as well as bike-commuters like Wayne.