Just last year our town voted in spending ~35k to have the school and town networks administered by an outside firm. We are a very small town (~5000 people) Northwest of Boston.
I suggested we let the students of the local high school handle the administrative duties. You would have thought I asked for the town to sponsor the space shuttle.
It was pretty obvious the powers that be don't have a clue about what is now available for technology. When I mentioned Linux/FreeBSD, they looked like gomer pyle on a qualude (sp?).
It's really sad because I know many young people would really thrive if given this type of opportunity. Their technical skills are outstanding and could easily handle the small workload of our town.
Until the 'elders' get their heads out of their a**es, it appears that towns will continue to waste money.
Again, technology loses to corporate crap
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As a Vitts customer, I am deeply disturbed by the lack of teeth in the FCC when dealing with the baby bells. Case in point: Verizon. They get away with murder up here in the Northeast. Vitts is the latest casualty (we are keeping our fingers crossed they make it).
Our town has only one broadband supplier, Vitts. If they go out, we are screwed as Verizon will not provide us with their BS service and we don't have cable. Verizon will gladly sell us frame-relay or a T1. It's sad, really sad.
Right now I pay ~$100.00 for 530kb pipe (up & down). Vitts service has been outstanding! If they make it, I would strongly suggest people to support them.
But, alas, Verizon owns all the copper to our houses. The sad part is that companies can't go string their own copper. Nice laws guys.
Enough rant. It just really irks me to see DSL go down in flames when it beats everything out there hands down (at least SDSL does).
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Just last year our town voted in spending ~35k to have the school and town networks administered by an outside firm. We are a very small town (~5000 people) Northwest of Boston.
I suggested we let the students of the local high school handle the administrative duties. You would have thought I asked for the town to sponsor the space shuttle.
It was pretty obvious the powers that be don't have a clue about what is now available for technology. When I mentioned Linux/FreeBSD, they looked like gomer pyle on a qualude (sp?).
It's really sad because I know many young people would really thrive if given this type of opportunity. Their technical skills are outstanding and could easily handle the small workload of our town.
Until the 'elders' get their heads out of their a**es, it appears that towns will continue to waste money.
As a Vitts customer, I am deeply disturbed by the lack of teeth in the FCC when dealing with the baby bells. Case in point: Verizon. They get away with murder up here in the Northeast. Vitts is the latest casualty (we are keeping our fingers crossed they make it).
Our town has only one broadband supplier, Vitts. If they go out, we are screwed as Verizon will not provide us with their BS service and we don't have cable. Verizon will gladly sell us frame-relay or a T1. It's sad, really sad.
Right now I pay ~$100.00 for 530kb pipe (up & down). Vitts service has been outstanding! If they make it, I would strongly suggest people to support them.
But, alas, Verizon owns all the copper to our houses. The sad part is that companies can't go string their own copper. Nice laws guys.
Enough rant. It just really irks me to see DSL go down in flames when it beats everything out there hands down (at least SDSL does).
-fred