radarman
join:2005-06-01
Odenton, MD
| reply to bereasonable
Re: Great Plan
I have a broadband connection because FreeBSD (at the time) was releasing new versions a lot more frequently, and broadband made running 'cvsup ports' and 'portupgrade -rR ' feasible. (try that on a dialup...)
As a bonus, I can access my system from work or while travelling, and check on things. This is one MAJOR reason I have broadband.
More lately, though, I have enjoyed having it because I save a crap load of money by using Vonage for all of my long distance calls. I figure I probably save over a $100/mo (in all seriousness, probably closer to $150/mo) by not paying per minute.
And no, I don't run any P2P apps. |
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bereasonable
@cable.rogers
| my argumement is, the internet is evolving and the needs of each individual customer varies. perhaps some company needs to exist for people alone like myself who aren't just garden variety users. we may be using the connection for different reasons. but we both expect to get what we pay for. am i right or am i wrong? |
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RuralCentrNY
join:2005-09-12
Remsen, NY
| Problem is it wouldn't be profitable to support only hardcore users. You need mostly people who just do a little browsing, etc. to support that 5% of people who use over 50% of the bandwidth (or whatever that statistic is, I know it's something fairly close to that).
And as far as the P2P discussion goes, it honestly got big right about at the same point that broadband became widely available to most any type of city area. I remember this being somewhere around '98-'99, but we were in a very small city..
But usenet, FTP, http and maybe even gopher if I remember right were a way to get lots of legit and non-legit stuff for years and years before that. |
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Goober
Premium
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL | Right you are. My earliest recollection of grabbing files goes back to the usenet and gopher days. 1989 is my earliest recollection. |
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