- From: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:39:44 -0700
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@W3.ORG>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>, Public TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>
Mark Nottingham wrote: > > Reading between the lines there, it seems like networking has come > quite a ways in Africa. > In terms of bandwidth, rural America is the new Africa. I could move to Estonia *or* Senegal and get much better broadband Internet service than I currently have here, cheaper. I still miss the Tier 2 T1 line I used to have in my home from 1995-2000 when I was an ISP. Internet access here remains a SPOF proposition, where one provider being down usually means all providers (and cash registers) are down. If I were still in the ISP business, I'd still be running squid. Stale copies of, say, local and regional newspapers, is still a higher level of customer service than nothing at all. After purchasing Qwest, CenturyLink de-activated the old microwave link following Hwy 131, which used to be the SPOF before the fiber-optic link was installed following Hwy 40; ending about a dozen years where the former was a failover for the latter. -Eric
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