On 2010-09-13 22:56, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
On Tuesday 14 September 2010 00:22:24 Carlos E. R. wrote:
It is not only in my city to be fair. It is even not only in my country.
Ok, but very peculiar :-) Let me guess, when you meet a neighbour on the elevator, you salute and exchange pleasantries? :-) Here, in flats, we ignore one another. Privacy or whatever. Frequently people do not know the person living above or below, or even in the same level. It would be very rare that we would coordinate and create a building LAN. In fact, I did think, sometime in the late 90's, that a LAN in the building would be interesting, sharing one internet connection somehow. I had no idea about switches and routers anyway, and I knew that it would be impossible task to coordinate and make all the neighbours to even agree to allow installation of the cable. Reminds me... when I wanted to play computer games with my room-mate, I set up a long RS232 cable across our rooms. The idea of "ethernet" never occurred to us - and anyway, none of our computers had a card. I'm very sure mine didn't, at least. The other chap had a better machine. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))