On Monday 13 September 2010 15:02:49 Per Jessen wrote:
1) in my part of the world in the 90s, there was no use nor demand for the LAN in residential areas, but once the internet content grew, the internet connection got increasingly better, and more people began buying computers. 2) in your part of the world, ethernet LAN (for some yet unexplained reason) became extremely popular in residential multi-storey buildings.
Because
1. it was cheap to buy an ethernet card and a cable and connect to the neighbors
Same was the case here, except to 99% of people it wasn't interesting. (even then, it was still mostly people with some involvement in IT or other technical sciences that had a computer at home).
2. five people if acting together could get cheaper Internet than acting separately - just buy one channel (whether fiber, ADSL, radio or other technology available then) and share it.
That must have happened later, right?
I think from 90s.
Well, comparing with western Europe, sharing across household limits was not allowed due to telecomms regulation
1. It i impossible to check 2. Not all providers impose such restrictions (some do indeed, modeling after Western countries), but I think it appeared only recently 3. I think such restrictions illegal in this country and can be protested in the court, so nobody enforces it.
and pricewise it didn't matter much anyway.
Matters very much if traffic not counted but the payment is only for connection speed.
3. such networks grew to become local providers, then merged to become a city-wide provider
Yep, that I have understood and that makes sense. What I still can't quite see is how a few nerds wiring up their apartments developed into every or virtually every apartment building being fully wired for ethernet,
http://www.tushino.com/ - LAN of Tushino district http://www.izmaylovo.ru/ - LAN of Izmailovo district http://www.butovo.com/ - LAN of Butovo district http://www.metronet.ru/ - LAN of Metrogorodok district http://www.golnet.ru/ - LAN of a part of Golyanovo They all now Internet providers. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org