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Article #365Re: NEWS: Free Wi-Fi still a goer in San Fran'
From: Mark McIntyre
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:52
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:52
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John Navas wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:46:05 -0700, John Higdon > <HisRoyalRadioHigness@kome.com> wrote in > <HisRoyalRadioHigness-5BE3A3.09460518062008@news.announcetech.com>: > >> In article <819i545fe2h55o2p71gfhoul5ois99ut4l@4ax.com>, >> John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote: >> >>> I seriously doubt that. The "caps" being considered are in the GIGAbyte >>> range of broadband, not the MEGAbyte range of dialup. Like most people >>> I'm not even close to that level of transfer. >> And if you don't need it, no one does. I understand. > > What part of "most people" was unclear? ;) The part where you produced some evidence that "most people" only generated hundreds of megs of monthly traffic? :-) >>> I'm not sure what you mean by "things the Internet promised" -- do you? >>> -- but I don't see any real risk to anything other than massive >>> audio/video downloading, which is NOT what the Internet was built for. >> Could you direct me to a reference which outlines "what the Internet was >> built for"? I had always mistakenly assumed that it was a dumb network >> whose usage was limited only by the imagination of those utilizing it. > > There are ample references to the fact that multicasting wasn't a > consideration in the original design of TCP/IP, on which the Internet is > based, as I'm sure you know. I'm unclear as to how this answers the question.
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