Need advice with Wireless Broadband

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Bell Canada is installing fibre on my street as we speak. Last week they brought the cables to the side of the house. I checked their website and their offerings for my address are still asymmetrical upload and download. I’m guessing once the neighbourhood is all connected they should offer symmetrical speeds. I’m pretty happy with my present 1Gbs/50Mbs, but fibre must be nice to have (I’m salivating).

Keeps the technology improving and the prices going down. If it wasn’t for Steve Jobs we were still going to type commands in DOS (did I hit a nerve?) :rofl:

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Ouch! :blush:

I can’t imagine my phone with wysiwyg and a DOS screen.

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It was almost a year here after they ran the fiber, but that was back when Verizon was running low on funds and they just let it sit unterminated and put it “on hold” so that’s not the norm, obviously they want to get new revenue as soon as possible. I just have the lowest tier, 300/300, plenty for me, and only $30 a month. They go as high as 1G/1G for like $70 a month but I don’t need it, all my servers are now hosted or in the cloud.

You spelled Xerox wrong.

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That’s essentially the screen I’ve been in today watching my signal/link rate/frequency change back and forth. I mean, it is nice to have a command interpreter/terminal available, But I grew up on DOS so old habits die hard.

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Ha. :rofl:

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That’s what I was thinking, too. Is this :point_up: better?

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Uh oh.

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No I didn’t, Xerox had the GUI “PARKed” for years and didn’t know what to do with it. Never said that Steve invented it, he just improved it (it was clunky and unusable) and sold it to the masses. :grin:

DISCLAIMER:

So we are clear, the above was to illustrate that competition is good for everyone. It wasn’t meant as a jab at the inferiority of the dark side :rofl:

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Then Bill stole it from both of them and sold it to the other 98% of people.

I mean I guess the apple sad face was better than the blue screen of death. Matter of preference though :rofl:

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:man_shrugging:

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Then what’s the point? Life is boring without some ball busting.

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Buncha friggin’ nerds….

:roll_eyes:

I’m right there with ya. :+1:

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Nothing, except that is one deep rabbit whole we are headed for :joy:

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With one exception, Apple bought it from Xerox, didn’t steal it.

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Speak for yourself :rofl:

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Oh, I do, as the post indicated. :wink:

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If I recall correctly he stole it then bought it when the lawsuits started to get drafted up, but managed to mostly clean up that little timeline discrepancy after the fact.

As if there is a such thing as an original idea in tech anymore anyway… I had 3 different brands of MP3 players before the iPod came out (and then the sad, sad Microsoft Zune came out a few years later).

I actually thought the Xbox was going to be a huge flop (along the lines of pretty much every other hardware endeavor MS has done). But they proved me wrong on that one. Surprised Apple hasn’t tried to release one, though I guess trying to break into that market at this point doesn’t make much sense.

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My point was that Bill never paid Steve.

Tech? There are no original ideas in anything. You are familiar with Picasso’s quote: “Good artists borough, great artist steal.”

Apple doesn’t want to “follow” or compete with already established gadgets. Also if they can’t improve on something, they don’t even bother.

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@ssummerlin didn’t get a fat check from Mr. Gates? Maybe the Summerlin Foundation should have a chat with the Gates Foundation.

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