Re: Tech Issues

["Chris Beckwith" <beckwith@ime.net>]

"Ben Levy" <belevy@syr.edu> wrote re: the Excite@Home debacle...

> Combine this with the same problems in the land of DSL, and you start to
> wonder if this home broadband stuff is ready for primetime.

It isn't.  Bob Cringely has memorably written on this very subject and the
underlying issues.

First, here's Cringely's analysis of how Excite@Home ran itself into the
ground:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010830.html

Next, he says why broadband in its present form is economically
unsustainable:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20011011.html

Finally, Cringely responds to all the hate mail from satisfied home
broadband customers, i.e. those who want to have their cake and eat it too:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20011018.html

Take care,
Chris