ftth_finland

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by ftth_finland 2y ago
Why are you quoting somebody else when replying to me? You’ll have to be more specific about what you mean by dark votes.
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
No. Their owners and employees might be.
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
> In the era of virtual servers, cloud infrastructure, CDNs, etc., ASNs and IP blocks are not necessarily that helpful. The above statement makes no sense at all. The whole Internet is built on connections between autonomous systems and
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
With regards to broadband, this is already a solved problem: build open access networks. It is a very straightforward way for municipalities to incentivize and create competition. As to other infrastructure projects, there are ways of calcu
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
That is interesting. Is there anything you can share about the financials? I’d be making mad cash if I had a municipalwide fiber network at my disposal. If there is no muni network to be, I hope you are at least leasing dark fiber and oth
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
You might want to look into Citizens United vs FEC.
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
Surely you must be joking? The government entity that makes all the laws and decides how the money is spent, can’t allocate funds for their core purpose? Individual lawmakers may not want to, but they can if they wish to. There are already
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
Yes, legal persons.
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
> as their community pleases Did you miss that part?
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
You calling your congressman is a wee bit different than a using multiple millions of dark money to influence legislators.
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
> My understanding is that places like ours are the best case scenario with municipal broadband: most likely to see uptake (the lifeblood of these schemes), universal adoption of broadband, enough density to make last mile delivery feasi
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
Are you suggesting that lawmakers who control the whole budget, legislative taxes and have entire government departments at their disposal are short on money?
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
Your doctor or mechanic is not trying to lobby or otherwise influence lawmakers directly. Obviously interested parties as well as the general public should be allowed input to the legislative process. However, input should not be solely or
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
If your wealthy urban area’s needs are already being met, then obviously it makes little economical sense to overbuild.
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
A simple solution would be to allow only private persons to remain anonymous. This could further be limited to donors under $X or % of total donations.
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
1. You are not a lawmaker. 2. Seeking out expertise is a paragon of making wise choices. Seeking out moneyed interests is not.
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
There are entire government departments dedicated to statistics, research and analysis. How about lawmakers avail themselves to these services, instead of relying on moneyed interests?
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
Don’t be silly, I never said anything about rolling back any laws. Please don’t try to put words into my mouth. Digressions aside, what value is there in allowing an uninformed person to make impactful decisions on complex matters?
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
A single fiber has enough bandwidth for complete nations; you aren’t going to run out of bandwidth anytime soon. How you share bandwidth between parties depends on the setup. More often than not the end user only has one service provider at
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
Perhaps politicians who do not understand a thing should not be allowed to make decisions about it?
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
Lawmakers being generalists does not preclude them commissioning their own research. Just being briefed on an issue from both sides isn’t sufficient, they could both be wrong.
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
… or the lawmakers could (gasp!) do their damn jobs themselves and do their own research instead of relying on moneyed interests.
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
If you really are concerned about this then you should be advocating for open access networks, i.e. separation of physical assets and service provisioning. The municipality owns all the hard assets, such as ducts, pits, poles and fiber opti
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by ftth_finland 2y ago
Finland has a free nationwide RTK network. It’s nominally only for testing and R&D use, tho, and you have to renew your account every three months. https://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/finpos/rtk However, you c
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
It’s not the cost per passing that matters, it’s the average cost per passing that matters. Most consumers can’t or won’t pay the outlay up front, but that’s why you use financing.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
So don’t do water intensive farming in Nevada?
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
Yes, the 2G backhaul is underdimensioned. However, that's an easy fix with a 10G upgrade. Just need to swap the optics.
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
It's not just the capex, but the opex also. Forklift upgrades aren't free. Furthermore new wireless kit like Tarana is expensive .
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
3 Mbps/household is enough for evening streaming, statistical multiplexing kicks in as the number of subscribers grow. It's a bit naff, but not overly so. Averaging 3 Mbps of usage does not mean the gigabit connection drops down t
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by ftth_finland 3y ago
> Neighborhood congestion is the bane of every ISP Not really, congestion is only an issue for poorly designed or poorly run ISPs.

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