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Cringley On Bandwidth-Expanding Modulation Technology

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ten-times-the-fun dept.

jtappan writes: "Robert X Cringely has an article describing a new modulation technology that will allegedly allow cable modems to run 10 times as fast, and which will eventually allow existing cable networks to carry 500 HDTV channels."

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  1. Hooray, 500 channels... by HardCase · · Score: 3, Funny
    And there's still nothing on...


    -h-

    1. Re:Hooray, 500 channels... by stu72 · · Score: 5, Funny

      True Story:

      I grew up in a remote northern mining town in the Yukon (that's Canada, if you didn't know) We only got 1 channel for a number of years, and that was CBC, the national public channel. So I grew up on the standard kids fare they carried, Sesame Street et al.

      Thing is, there was a dirty little secret I didn't learn about until quite recently. I may have thought I was learning my abc's with the rest of the country, but in fact, I was a day late.

      There was no CBC reception in that area. Every day, 24 hrs of the previous day's broadcast was taped and flown up, to be rebroadcast 24 hrs late, on a small transmitter in town.

      So even back then, we had decent bandwidth capacity (coulda put more tapes of other channels on the plane), just horrible latency. :)

    2. Re:Hooray, 500 channels... by JabberWokky · · Score: 3, Funny
      So even back then, we had decent bandwidth capacity (coulda put more tapes of other channels on the plane), just horrible latency. :)

      Yes, but you only had one transmitter, so you faced that peskey last mile issue even then. ;-P

      --
      Evan "Wasn't Oz the usenet feed that went on tapes by mail?" E.

      --
      "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
  2. My favorite quote... by brunes69 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have boxes filled with old modems, ISDN routers, and Ethernet hubs that are all perfectly functional, but useless to me. I have closets filled with old computers that run like a charm...

    After reading this, I sent Cringly my shipping address. Do you think this is a bit too forward?

  3. Blatent Karma Whoring Link by slashdot.org · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rainmaker's website who make the tech he's talking about. (Like no one would have found this link otherwise)

    You got to wonder if this is one of the SEC sites.

  4. Re:Hey Taco by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    Screw Robert X Cringely; I wanna see a column by Malcolm X Cringely! Something like:

    "The economic philosophy of modulation technology only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the cable modem with which we browse, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other ISPs in other communities in order to get bandwidth."