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Last-Mile Fiber Optic
Johnny Mnemonic writes "The newsletter "The Town Paper" tracks the development of "traditional" new developments--developments with integrated shopping, parks, and that are pedestrian friendly. Their recent issue has an article that describes a new community in Issaquah WA that has, among it's interesting features: a wired LAN in every home, free community Intranet, and a choice for a fiber optic connection. It is probably no coincidence that Microsoft is planning on building 3 million square feet of office space there. How much is a pre-wired house worth to you? What will this do for community building?"
Not only will I be able to hear my neighbors through the walls; this means increased fps on the hidden X-10 camera!
no more than an unwired house.
It took me all of a saturday to run cat5 to four bedrooms, my wife and I's offices, the rec room (xbox/ps2/divx box), the living room (another xbox), the other living room, and the 'arcade' room thats just sort of an extra room in this fucked up house.
Short of that, there are 'power plug' networks, phone line networks, and wireless, all of which I've used successfully (and transparently). But 100mbit on my local lan (with gigabit in the future) is great.
A community intranet? I really dont want to see the beastiality incest porn that my hillbilly neighbours no doubt live on.
As for more b/w to the demarking point outside, that's all fine by me. But I doubt I'd be willing to pay any more than I do now for my plain jane cablemodem.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
"We met at a Starbucks. She was in one that was across the street from the one I was in"
"We both feel so lucky to be living in a time of such wonderful catalogs."
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
On the first month of home sales, Red Hat should offer fresh boxed copies of Linux (yes, with the usual support) to each new resident. Just drop off the promotional crate with the sales agent; it's just like some laundry detergent, barbecue briquette or furniture coupons that other subdivisions offer their new home-owning residents.
How about Linux missionaries riding their bicycles through the neighorhoods?
(The doorbell rings, two young men dressed in simple black and white clothes waiting.)
homeowner: Yes?
missionary: Hello, sir. Have you ever tried Linux?
homeowner: Isn't that a laundry detergent?
missionary: Only in Germany, sir. Would you be interested to know that you don't have to buy Windows every two years?
homeowner: I think you're an encyclopedia salesman! And I like Windows.
missionary: Why not give Linux a try? Here, I'll install it for you. (pushes door open and runs for computer room)
homeowner: Hey, get out of here! I'll call the police!
(2 hours later...)
homeowner: (robot voice) I like Linux. I hate Windows. RMS is a god. I must tell my friends.
missionary: Very good sir! See you at the next LUG meeting, then!
A dingo ate my sig...
Actually was a company a couple of years ago that did this called Darwin Networks. They ran a pretty good service until they went bankrupt.
Natural selection at work, I guess.
GF.
Lots of petrified grits