Any details on how much this cost, maybe I just missed it in the article. 40k. It sounds interesting but in the US this would only make sense in cities and most people don't live in MDUs. Where I live a lot of peoples driveways are a mile or two long. Marcel Plug <marcelplug@gmail.com> wrote: This article from arstechnica is right on topic. Its about how the city of Amsterdam built an open-access fibre network. It seems to me this is the right way to do it, or at least very close to the right way.. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-amsterdam-was-wired-for-... -Marcel On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:35 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:18:26 -1000, Michael Painter said:
"The indication of above average or below average is based on a comparison of the actual test result to the current NTIA definition of broadband which is 768 kbps download and 200 kbps upload. Any test result above the NTIA definition is considered above average, and any result below is considered below average."
That's the national definition of "broadband" that we're stuck with. To show how totally cooked the books are, consider that when they compute "percent of people with access to residential broadband", they do it on a per-county basis - and if even *one* subscriber in one corner of the county has broadband, the entire county counts.