What Are You Doing Right Now
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
reading this
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/att-lobbies-against-nationwide-fiber-says-10mbps-uploads-are-good-enoughI don't like AT & T. My dealings with many of their various types of business have left me unhappy. I read the article as AT & T going wah, wah, we'll fix our mistakes, wah, wah, we need more money, wah wah, we don't want to do the extra work.
While I do get the fact that if they have to build out fiber infrastructure in the Middle of Nowhere, that it will take longer to see a ROI, so they really don't want to do it. I say stay out of it and let cities that want to roll their own do it. There's been a few cities that have done so and have gotten good results and happy customers. (According to this recent-ish article from TechDirt.
From what I recall reading last night - this was mostly about rural.... It's hard for me not to side with them on the expense to supporting rural America - they likely never make up the expenses...
While I will not side with AT&T on this, or anything really, the point about the cost of supporting rural with fixed line services is valid. It is stupid expensive and no company should be forced to do it with no recompense.
The family of the woman I was dating in 1994 had a small farm in south central Missouri ( @pchiodo specifically, outside Licking, MO). The road the farm house was on had 5 houses. It was still on a party line. They finally got distinct dial tone in 1995. I am 100% certain that AT&T (local provider) will never earn back the cost of putting in that copper.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
reading this
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/att-lobbies-against-nationwide-fiber-says-10mbps-uploads-are-good-enoughI don't like AT & T. My dealings with many of their various types of business have left me unhappy. I read the article as AT & T going wah, wah, we'll fix our mistakes, wah, wah, we need more money, wah wah, we don't want to do the extra work.
While I do get the fact that if they have to build out fiber infrastructure in the Middle of Nowhere, that it will take longer to see a ROI, so they really don't want to do it. I say stay out of it and let cities that want to roll their own do it. There's been a few cities that have done so and have gotten good results and happy customers. (According to this recent-ish article from TechDirt.
From what I recall reading last night - this was mostly about rural.... It's hard for me not to side with them on the expense to supporting rural America - they likely never make up the expenses...
While I will not side with AT&T on this, or anything really, the point about the cost of supporting rural with fixed line services is valid. It is stupid expensive and no company should be forced to do it with no recompense.
Agreed completely - so my next question is - do you think this should be done at the taxpayer's expense?
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
reading this
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/att-lobbies-against-nationwide-fiber-says-10mbps-uploads-are-good-enoughI don't like AT & T. My dealings with many of their various types of business have left me unhappy. I read the article as AT & T going wah, wah, we'll fix our mistakes, wah, wah, we need more money, wah wah, we don't want to do the extra work.
While I do get the fact that if they have to build out fiber infrastructure in the Middle of Nowhere, that it will take longer to see a ROI, so they really don't want to do it. I say stay out of it and let cities that want to roll their own do it. There's been a few cities that have done so and have gotten good results and happy customers. (According to this recent-ish article from TechDirt.
From what I recall reading last night - this was mostly about rural.... It's hard for me not to side with them on the expense to supporting rural America - they likely never make up the expenses...
While I will not side with AT&T on this, or anything really, the point about the cost of supporting rural with fixed line services is valid. It is stupid expensive and no company should be forced to do it with no recompense.
Agreed completely - so my next question is - do you think this should be done at the taxpayer's expense?
Well that is how it is done now. That is one of the reasons for the USF (https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service-fund).
Rural access is number 1 "high cost"Do I think it should be? Yes. But like most things it is not done well in the U.S., because we are a republic of semi-independant nation states that are only nominally under a larger authority.
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got in late this morning, sequence of events:
1 - slept in
2 - always totally undo shoes so i can slip 'em on easily next day, didn't do that last night
3 - couldn't find car keys
4 - had to move things i was taking to work into car 2
5 - car 2 low of fuel
6 - thick fog
7 - stuck behind 2 log trucks, no way to get pastjust gave up and cruised in 30 minutes late.
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In Norcross, GA where AT&T Enterprise fiber gets me 10Mb/s and TMobile cell phone gets me 200Mb/s
I kid you not.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In Norcross, GA where AT&T Enterprise fiber gets me 10Mb/s
That is the fault of whoever contracted the fiber.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In Norcross, GA where AT&T Enterprise fiber gets me 10Mb/s
That is the fault of whoever contracted the fiber.
It's more than that. The TMobile is getting half the latency of the fiber, too!
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In Norcross, GA where AT&T Enterprise fiber gets me 10Mb/s
That is the fault of whoever contracted the fiber.
No competition here. AT&T holds all the cards.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In Norcross, GA where AT&T Enterprise fiber gets me 10Mb/s
That is the fault of whoever contracted the fiber.
No competition here. AT&T holds all the cards.
Sounds like they hold the dark fiber
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In Norcross, GA where AT&T Enterprise fiber gets me 10Mb/s and TMobile cell phone gets me 200Mb/s
I kid you not.
I remember Windstream offering 50/50 for close to $1k / month.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In Norcross, GA where AT&T Enterprise fiber gets me 10Mb/s and TMobile cell phone gets me 200Mb/s
I kid you not.
I remember Windstream offering 50/50 for close to $1k / month.
Sure, but we want a service that actually works.
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Right now, eh?
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on hold with net support.
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Just finished a rush reinstall of esxi on a loaner host for another client, still need to setup the switch and nics, but that's a tomorrow issue when I drop the equipment off
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@scottalanmiller can't upvote that enough
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Just noticed this difference between RHEL and Ubuntu. By default the Bash profile filename is
~/.bash_profilein RHEL and~/.profilein Ubuntu. -
@eddiejennings Could oft as well have both. .profile is more generic while, duh, .bash_profile is bash. .profile could for e.g. be used to read .kshrc. So groove on it...
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just noticed this difference between RHEL and Ubuntu. By default the Bash profile filename is
~/.bash_profilein RHEL and~/.profilein Ubuntu..profile is the official filename from BASH and the universal standard. It predates BASH.
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About to pack. Returning from Pollenville to Dallas today.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
About to pack. Returning from Pollenville to Dallas today.
As a warm thank you for your stay in Pollenville, please accept this yellow paint job on everything that has come in contact with the air. After your return to Dallas, please sneeze on everything, so you can have your Pollen with you always and forever.
