Water vapour also condenses and falls out of the sky if too much of it gets in one spot, providing fresh water for plants and animals alike. I much prefer Earth's temporary clouds of H2O to Venus's permanent atmosphere of CO2...
Thought struck me though while reading about IPrimus's "Jetstream" business DSL service - okay, it provides "2048Kbps upload and 2048Kbps download rates", with "2GB traffic included every month". So presumably if you go over that you pay extra, right?
You wouldn't want someone to abuse your link - at 2048 kilobits per second, you could go through 2 gigabytes in a mere two and a quarter hours - that's 0.3% of a month. Ouch. A few clueless users and bam, byebye allocation. And if your sysadmin doesn't notice right away...
Unfortunately, only *some* of the cities are being served. Optus@Home's website lists Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne (state capitals), and as far as I can tell BigPond while having POPs in other capitals too is likewise restricted to the major metropolitan areas. My east coast city (Bundaberg) certainly doesn't have cable - much as I wish it did - and doesn't look like it will get any laid within the next five years at least.
It's not all doom and gloom though - hopefully the upcoming big DSL rollouts will manage to reach here by sometime in 2001.
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Water vapour also condenses and falls out of the sky if too much of it gets in one spot, providing fresh water for plants and animals alike. I much prefer Earth's temporary clouds of H2O to Venus's permanent atmosphere of CO2...
Thought struck me though while reading about IPrimus's "Jetstream" business DSL service - okay, it provides "2048Kbps upload and 2048Kbps download rates", with "2GB traffic included every month". So presumably if you go over that you pay extra, right?
You wouldn't want someone to abuse your link - at 2048 kilobits per second, you could go through 2 gigabytes in a mere two and a quarter hours - that's 0.3% of a month. Ouch. A few clueless users and bam, byebye allocation. And if your sysadmin doesn't notice right away...
Unfortunately, only *some* of the cities are being served. Optus@Home's website lists Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne (state capitals), and as far as I can tell BigPond while having POPs in other capitals too is likewise restricted to the major metropolitan areas. My east coast city (Bundaberg) certainly doesn't have cable - much as I wish it did - and doesn't look like it will get any laid within the next five years at least.
It's not all doom and gloom though - hopefully the upcoming big DSL rollouts will manage to reach here by sometime in 2001.