| Larry 2008-03-17, 10:33 am |
| EskWIRED@spamblock.panix.com wrote in
news:frlm5n$fuk$2@re
ader2.panix.com:
> Is that true? I noticed that I got MUCH faster EVDO in Vermont than I
> get in Boston. Is the reason that there is more bandwidth/user?
>
Sure. Sellphone bandwidth, just like cable bandwidth is a SHARED resource.
In Boston, or any heavily populated area, there are thousands of users
fighting over X bandwidth. In VT, the bandwidth just sits there with
occasional use. Country people, in general of course, are much less
technology addicted than city people, like us. I bet if we went to rural
VT and polled 1000 sellphone users, a tiny fraction of them use or even
know data service exists. They just got them off AMPS, kicking and
screaming because these little toyphones really suck in the country because
the infrastructure to support them simply isn't built....and probably never
will be. Remember all those dead zones you were in?
So, some smartass from Boston comes in with his FancyFone 5000 and has the
whole bandwidth to himself....capped, of course, by the company's
hobblings. The sellphone runs as fast as they'll let it.
It's not real busy in the boondocks.....I stream Xiph and Shoutcast out
there a lot.
In Boston, you have to share what the company has, which is never enough,
with all the other Boston smartasses with FancyFone 5000s...(c; They'll
buy more bandwidth if enough corporate users start rattling their sabres
and churning....
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