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[scott at MIT.EDU (Scott Ehrlich)]

Happy April 1 (fool's).   Great one by Google!

Many of the links are broken, and it just looked a bit too funky to be 
true...

Let's see how long it lasts on the page!

Scott

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, David Kramer wrote:

> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:34:25 -0400
>> "Matt Galster" <galsterm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_FiOS
>>> 
>>> That technical description of the network makes FiOS look more like
>>> Cable than DSL.
>>> 
>>> "Verizon is constructing a passive optical network. Optical fiber
>>> extends from central offices to unpowered hubs, in which the optical
>>> signal is optically split up to 32 ways."
>> Exactly. I can't speak for other cable companies, but Comcast brings
>> fibre down to their equivalent of a hub and uses the existing copper.
>> As I had mentioned earlier, at one time cable tv was a one-way system,,
>> but could allow low speeds in reverse. I don't know if this is still
>> true since many cable companies have virtually rewired. Now that
>> Verizon has raised the bar with an excellent (from a technical
>> standpoint) service, their competitors (Comcast, Charter, Cox, et. al.)
>> will need to meet their level or service and price. On the other hand,
>> the average cable Internet subscriber is only concerned with download
>> speeds. We, on this list, are probably on the fringe.
>
> Google just announced something even better!
> http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html
>
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