13 Sep
2010
13 Sep
'10
11:51
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 13:02 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > 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). +1; there is no local content. And, especially today, peer-to-peer is essentially dead. > > 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. And sociological attitudes matter too. This could happen only rarely in the USA. > > 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. Easy; with facilitation from local governments. Which is why what he is talking about isn't applicable other places - it just won't happen in most places due to non-technical reasons; and it is probably criminal, or at least prohibited [the USA*], in many places,. * government entities are often restricted form 'competing' with the 'private sector' (note that both those terms are used in a very tongue-in-cheek manner). If a local government installs something like a fiber-loop you can start the count-down until they are sued by the telopolies. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org