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Apartments for Techies?

Posted by Cliff on from the as-long-as-it-has-bandwidth dept.

thedistance asks: "I'm wondering if anyone has heard of companies retro fitting any of the failed telecom hotels for apartment use? It sure would be nice to find an apartment complex that was designed just for the tech croud with a fiber/cat5 infrastructure throughout. It sure would make it a lot easier to setup highspeed internet access, video on demand, and wlans... not to mention an easy way to borrow the spare NIC from your neighbor... (we can just leave the sugar borrowing to the rest of the non-techie world)" If you know of an apartment complex offering high bandwidth, please post a comment, below. Aside from bandwidth, what other amenities would make an apartment complex ideal for the high tech worker in the 21st Century?

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  1. Friend in Virginia planning on doing just that by Vairon · · Score: 3, Troll

    A friend of mine who just moved to Virginia, is planning on doing just that. He going to purchase an apartment complex (his family has lots of money) and outfit it to be geek friendly. He's planning on running gigabit ethernet to every apt for apt-to-apt networking and use highspeed ADSL with several static IPs (one for each apt) for outbound internet access. Then start playing with video-on-demand and other cool technologies on his apt complex as a testbed for others. Once he gets it right he'll start outfitting other apartment complexes for other realtors. Of course he'll be using Linux and FreeBSD for just about everything from the router to the "apt game servers" and video on demand servers.

  2. My dream apartment building: by Remote · · Score: 1, Troll

    100Mb ethernet. A subnet scheme that would allow me to have 2 IP's (maybe private addresses, you can always host your stuff somewhere else) at the very least. A decent power line, stabilized, backed up by a no-break (not for everything, just for the computers). Lots of conduit. Particularly one running straight to a big flat roof, just in case. But most important, the complex should be laid out like one geek buikding for each two ordinary ones, or else it would be a social aberration. And preferrably close to somewher one could walk to so as to relax, be it a mall or a park.