[libreoffice-website] Re: good news on IPv4 addresses

Le 2013-01-17 07:10, Florian Effenberger a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote on 2013-01-15 16:07:
> > I live in the "county seat" plus just across the river from down town of
> > the County's "capital" city, and we do not have good things like that.
> > For the $40 USD we get 15 down and 1 up, if we are very lucky. Even
> > though we are paying for that service, we usually get about a tenth of
> > that on a normal day.
>
> oh, that's really sad to hear. :-(
> Before we have some IPv6-only hosts -- which will only be testing
> machines anyways -- I want to give some instructions on how to get IPv6
> connectivity, independent from your ISP.
>
> I have held some talks/workshops on that, and also have some small
> howto, I just need to adapt this a bit, and then plan to publish it.
>
> Florian

Sadly, the same conditions that Tim explained are pretty well the same 
in Canada. Although, most universities and and some public sector 
entities have ramped up to meet these needs. For example, my school 
board (Waterloo Catholic School Board), the Waterloo Public School Board 
and the University of Waterloo teamed up 5 years ago and laid their own 
fibre optic lines. They just got tired of waiting for private industry 
to provide fibre optic lines. We now have a blazing fast intranet and we 
also sell space on it to private industry to pay back the costs of line 
installation -- we now compete with private industry.

I think a problem that we encounter here in N.America that is not seen 
in Europe is that our national fibre optic lines are run by private 
industry whereas in EU, most states own nationalized their lines. The 
N.American model is build on "for profit first" and companies are 
reluctant to upgrade quickly if they are making decent profits from 
their lines. The profit margin in upgrading is just too small.

BTW ... we just got our fibre optic lines for our neighbourhood just 
last week. And, as absurd as it sounds, the line into our house is not 
fibre optic. The companies still offer blazing speeds, but the 
homeowners rarely get one half of what they pay for.

Europe is definitely ahead of us on this.

Cheers,

Marc


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