A little Microsoft humor...

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Friday 18 May 2007 15:39, Paul Lussier wrote:
> I thought the /. story entitled "Broadband isn't Broadband Unless its
> 2Mbps?" was more interesting, since you were actually mentioned as
> having weighed in on the debate:
>
>     Larry Cohen, president of the Communication Workers of America,
>     said that the US is "stuck with a twentieth century Internet" and
>     that he would support increasing the "broadband" definition to
>     2Mbps. Ben Scott of Free Press echoed that sentiment, suggesting

I read that quickly, but couldn't get to a point.  What difference does the 
semantic definition of broadband mean anyway? I get 1Mbps SDSL to my home 
with reliable bandwidth available, a line that never fails (or if it does, I 
get an RFO), and a static IP (or more if I want them), and reverse DNS for 
$50/month.  I consider that broadband service and a notch above the typical 
out there, even if I can't burst to 8Mbps or whatever the going cable rate 
is.

It seems silly to me that my SDSL and my office's T1 would no longer be 
considered broadband.  Don't the people in our government have anything 
better to squabble over than this?
-N