Device could change cable

by **Buliwyf** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 11:12 pm

http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2003-06-12-cable_x.htm

by **Agent-Commando** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 11:53 pm

Ok great...but I thought bandwidth is limited by your cable/isp provider though? Don't they dictate how much bandwidth you can have?

by **Mosaic** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:32 am

I don't know the details, but I am pretty sure that my cable company limits how much bandwith I can use. They are pretty strict. But hey, I am all for extra bandwith if the thing works! I wouldn't have believed this was real if it wasn't on a actual real news website.

by **Camel toe joe** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 2:10 am

Originally posted by Agent-Commando
Ok great...but I thought bandwidth is limited by your cable/isp provider though? Don't they dictate how much bandwidth you can have?

this article is about frequency bandwidth, not internet it is basicly allowing more channel by using digital signal instead of analog, freeing up the analog for other uses mostly by government. They are doing this becasue the US is making all broadcasters go digital by a certain date sometime in 2006..and inoder for people with out digital TVs they would need this device to convert digital-to-analog....I heard about this digital by x day on tech tv the screensavers show;)

by **Homestar_Runner** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 7:40 am

Another form of broadband that supposedly being tested in England is broadband over electric lines... So if Comcast or Time Warner get a hold of it and have an outage, it looks like your screwed out of power, and Interweb...oh and probably phone too... You got to love monopolies!

by **Darnoc** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 8:06 am

Time Warner needs to recover from the AOL ouchy they took first.

by **Homestar_Runner** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 8:11 am

I can't think of any major broadband provider that is doing good right now...Comcast, no. Time Warner/AOL/Satan, no. Qwest, no... Sad to say the telecommunications market is in the old craper...

by **Agent-Commando** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 9:44 am

At least you guys in the States have choices, here it's basically a monopoly.

Rogers = cable TV, cable internet
Bell = satellite, DSL
Cogeco = cable TV, cable internet

What blows between Rogers and Cogeco is you can't use either of them unless you both sign up for their cable TV service and there cable internet service.... :mad:

Why? Because of existing cable lines, Rogers owns most of them in Canada right now.... There's very few areas, just the newly developed ones where you really have a choice for using Rogers or Cogeco.

Bell? Forget it, bandwidth limit of 10GB download and 5GB upload every month, it's $6.95 CAD for 1 extra GB if you go over.

Rogers and Cogeco is unlimited for the moment but even they are implementing what Bell is doing soon..... :mad:

by **Cpl. Bingham** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 1:46 pm

Originally posted by Agent-Commando
What blows between Rogers and Cogeco is you can't use either of them unless you both sign up for their cable TV service and there cable internet service

Not true. Both Rogers in the West and Shaw in the East allow people to use their cable internet services without buying their cable tv services. But yeah, it's a popular misconception, that neither company discourages, that you have to buy cable to get cable-internet.

Originally posted by Homestar_Runner
... and have an outage, it looks like your screwed out of power, and Interweb...oh and probably phone too...

Isn't that how it already works? If the power goes out you lose everything. It's not like putting internet over the power lines would be any different.

by **Ralph Wiggum** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 1:48 pm

Originally posted by Mosaic
I don't know the details, but I am pretty sure that my cable company limits how much bandwith I can use. They are pretty strict. But hey, I am all for extra bandwith if the thing works! I wouldn't have believed this was real if it wasn't on a actual real news website.

This thing is supposed to allow the cable provider to provide more bandwidth because it will allow everything to be transmitted digitally. The cable companies themselves would be installing them everywhere (assuming it worked). I think you and Agent were assuming it was some sort of black market deal to free up your own personal bandwidth.

by **RCinator** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 4:21 pm

Originally posted by Homestar_Runner
Another form of broadband that supposedly being tested in England is broadband over electric lines... So if Comcast or Time Warner get a hold of it and have an outage, it looks like your screwed out of power, and Interweb...oh and probably phone too... You got to love monopolies!

If your power goes out now, you lose your internet connection anyway . . . the cable modem and computer both need power to run!!! Ditto for most phones these days.

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