Ilya Chernykh wrote:
On Monday 13 September 2010 14:19:49 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? Well, comparing with western Europe, sharing across household limits was not allowed due to telecomms regulation and pricewise it didn't matter much anyway.
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, but I'm obviously missing the bigger picture. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org