~Little disclaimer I'm a Network Engineer specializing in DOCSIS/CABLE/VOIP~
Here's a little secret for you. Each analog channel they have on their system is pushing 38Mbit at the current going rate of 256QAM. Once they get rid of those OR optionally increase their plant capacity OR go to higher QAM they will have plenty of bandwidth. They also are very likely using MPEG2 for their datastreams, advanced codecs would significantly reduce the bandwidth needs.
So while yes you may be right that it will require upgrades, 10 years is way to far out.
I had a chance to compare my iPhone against the N95 with a Swede from MySQL AB today. We both agreed the Iphone was vastly superior in web browsing. In fact he was ready to dump his N95 for the iphone except he still lives in Sweden.
I'm a net engineer for one of the major US cable isps.. A VERY common issue I see with the Apple Airport Extremes is a problem with them declining offered leases infinitely. When this happens the DHCP server marks the lease as temporarily unavailable, the end result is a single offending Airport extreme can eat all the available addresses. The work around is to configure the dhcp server to ignore declines from the client. Regardless it's very annonying (and I'm typing this post on a Macbook so I'm not anti-Apple).
and still almost nobody uses it. There's a real trade off between security and convince. How many people do you think would use SSL if they had to download a separate program beyond the web browser and setup certificates to support it? Probably about 10% of the general internet population, and those would be the ones who realized their credit card numbers weren't be passed encrypted.
General rule of thumb.. If it's not (relatively) easy for the end user it will never become popular.
Missing the point that the world is migrating to a wireless platform. This is evident in just about anything you look at: cell phones, cordless phones, cordless mice, bluetooth headsets, and on and on. The biggest factor limiting it right now is none of the 802.11 standards can totally compete with 100BaseTX not to mention 802.3z/802.3ab.
uhm that's because it's Time Warner service. Earthlink is just reselling the same cable service. They MIGHT have their own POP circuit and maybe even their own CMTS but it's still Time Warner maintaining the cable system.
or maybe people put Apple on a pedestal and thing it needs to be absolutely flawless?
And anyway since I'm an IT professional I've seen the good, bad, and the ugly of notebooks (and most other computer hardware as well). The macbook is right up there with the best of them.
I've had a macbook for a few weeks now (1.8 w/1 Gig ram). I use mine on my lap, the top left corner can get pretty warm (but not a lot worse than other intel based notebooks I've owned, and I've had 5 in the last 4 years) if it's plugged in but it's not skin burning. I haven't had any problems with mine. I think it's people overreacting for the most part.
One thing I notice is it allows people who don't volunteer to fade in the background...
Guy I work with has the same title as me (network engineer) but has been doing it for 5 years longer and actually reports to another network engineer who then reports to my boss (if that makes sense).
He doesn't volunteer to take projects so people forget about him and don't offer him projects. It really requires you to make an effot to be noticed. That said it's working ok for me but I make an effort to try and make contact with my boss every other day.
One thing I personally feel is you don't develop a bond with your co-workers if you don't see them face to face.
I'm a network engineer for a large fortune 500, I have a company laptop with VPN software that I can use to work from home if I want. Occasionally I do, especially if I need to watch a sick child but still want to get some work done. Otherwise I try to go into my office and be present for face to face meetings whenever possible. My direct boss lives and works 300 miles from my office and I rarely see him, maybe 6 times a year. We talk over the phone and email frequently but we don't have the kind of boss/employee relationship that I've had in the past. Very hard to feel comfortable working/trusting other people when they seem almost like strangers to you.
You're both wrong. It's the bandwidth at the egress point (POP) where the ISP needs to hand off to a backbone provider (AT&T/Wiltel/Sprint/Qwest/etc). Having fiber available doesn't do you much good if you can't connect it somewhere useful.
I'm a Network Engineer for a major US cable company and for about 15 months or so we've been moving our HD streams as IP multicast across our internal fiber network. It's not really that much bandwidth internally to our facilities, about 30 Mbit per channel. Once it reaches our facilities it's converted to QAM and can be streamed across the RF cable plant.
Where this could/will pose a problem is for network rider services (ala Vonage) where this traffic needs to cross the egress POP. Anyone involved with carrier level services is well aware that bandwidth is oversold. It has to be due to the insane prices an OC-48 costs. It relies on the assumptions that 1.) Maybe 20-50% of your users will be using the service at any given time. 2.) Even if 100% of your user base is using the service they aren't all using the maximum speed available (ie web browsing versus running Bittorrent).
So to sum up, yeah it's not a big deal for a few people to stream HD at 6~10Mbit through an egress point however if a killer service takes off and everybody starts using it in this way it could seriously impact service. In fact it could force a paradigm shift in the industry.
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Eh dude I had my first DVD player in 1998.
And I thought robots couldn't understand humor.
Good response.
~Little disclaimer I'm a Network Engineer specializing in DOCSIS/CABLE/VOIP~ Here's a little secret for you. Each analog channel they have on their system is pushing 38Mbit at the current going rate of 256QAM. Once they get rid of those OR optionally increase their plant capacity OR go to higher QAM they will have plenty of bandwidth. They also are very likely using MPEG2 for their datastreams, advanced codecs would significantly reduce the bandwidth needs. So while yes you may be right that it will require upgrades, 10 years is way to far out.
Fuck man you are too old to be on this website.
I had a chance to compare my iPhone against the N95 with a Swede from MySQL AB today. We both agreed the Iphone was vastly superior in web browsing. In fact he was ready to dump his N95 for the iphone except he still lives in Sweden.
I'm a net engineer for one of the major US cable isps.. A VERY common issue I see with the Apple Airport Extremes is a problem with them declining offered leases infinitely. When this happens the DHCP server marks the lease as temporarily unavailable, the end result is a single offending Airport extreme can eat all the available addresses. The work around is to configure the dhcp server to ignore declines from the client. Regardless it's very annonying (and I'm typing this post on a Macbook so I'm not anti-Apple).
Obviously you don't work in a business of any size. Spreadsheets w/graphs are a way of life.
English also doesn't have an unique word for bumblefuck (e.g. you are fucking dumb). So I use bubmlefuck instead.
And for that matter google earth does as well (not that street overlay junk).
I don't fucking care.
I'm still trying to find cans of Nature's speedbump (Mantatee)
Ah so they let the can of Tuna rot... Smart.
and still almost nobody uses it. There's a real trade off between security and convince. How many people do you think would use SSL if they had to download a separate program beyond the web browser and setup certificates to support it? Probably about 10% of the general internet population, and those would be the ones who realized their credit card numbers weren't be passed encrypted. General rule of thumb.. If it's not (relatively) easy for the end user it will never become popular.
Missing the point that the world is migrating to a wireless platform. This is evident in just about anything you look at: cell phones, cordless phones, cordless mice, bluetooth headsets, and on and on. The biggest factor limiting it right now is none of the 802.11 standards can totally compete with 100BaseTX not to mention 802.3z/802.3ab.
uhm that's because it's Time Warner service. Earthlink is just reselling the same cable service. They MIGHT have their own POP circuit and maybe even their own CMTS but it's still Time Warner maintaining the cable system.
I'm usually too lazy to read the article but holy shit I'm not reading the review either.
If that kid was mine I'd be kicking his ass instead of sueing the school. It may not of been a direct threat but obviously the boy was wrong.
or maybe people put Apple on a pedestal and thing it needs to be absolutely flawless? And anyway since I'm an IT professional I've seen the good, bad, and the ugly of notebooks (and most other computer hardware as well). The macbook is right up there with the best of them.
I've had a macbook for a few weeks now (1.8 w/1 Gig ram). I use mine on my lap, the top left corner can get pretty warm (but not a lot worse than other intel based notebooks I've owned, and I've had 5 in the last 4 years) if it's plugged in but it's not skin burning. I haven't had any problems with mine.
I think it's people overreacting for the most part.
One thing I notice is it allows people who don't volunteer to fade in the background... Guy I work with has the same title as me (network engineer) but has been doing it for 5 years longer and actually reports to another network engineer who then reports to my boss (if that makes sense). He doesn't volunteer to take projects so people forget about him and don't offer him projects. It really requires you to make an effot to be noticed. That said it's working ok for me but I make an effort to try and make contact with my boss every other day.
One thing I personally feel is you don't develop a bond with your co-workers if you don't see them face to face. I'm a network engineer for a large fortune 500, I have a company laptop with VPN software that I can use to work from home if I want. Occasionally I do, especially if I need to watch a sick child but still want to get some work done. Otherwise I try to go into my office and be present for face to face meetings whenever possible. My direct boss lives and works 300 miles from my office and I rarely see him, maybe 6 times a year. We talk over the phone and email frequently but we don't have the kind of boss/employee relationship that I've had in the past. Very hard to feel comfortable working/trusting other people when they seem almost like strangers to you.
Find a residential service provider that let you push multicast traffic across their egress point...
You're both wrong. It's the bandwidth at the egress point (POP) where the ISP needs to hand off to a backbone provider (AT&T/Wiltel/Sprint/Qwest/etc). Having fiber available doesn't do you much good if you can't connect it somewhere useful.
I'm a Network Engineer for a major US cable company and for about 15 months or so we've been moving our HD streams as IP multicast across our internal fiber network. It's not really that much bandwidth internally to our facilities, about 30 Mbit per channel. Once it reaches our facilities it's converted to QAM and can be streamed across the RF cable plant. Where this could/will pose a problem is for network rider services (ala Vonage) where this traffic needs to cross the egress POP. Anyone involved with carrier level services is well aware that bandwidth is oversold. It has to be due to the insane prices an OC-48 costs. It relies on the assumptions that 1.) Maybe 20-50% of your users will be using the service at any given time. 2.) Even if 100% of your user base is using the service they aren't all using the maximum speed available (ie web browsing versus running Bittorrent). So to sum up, yeah it's not a big deal for a few people to stream HD at 6~10Mbit through an egress point however if a killer service takes off and everybody starts using it in this way it could seriously impact service. In fact it could force a paradigm shift in the industry.