[AusNOG] Warrnambool exchange

[Damian Guppy]

Hmmm,

I wonder if these are then the same people who turn around and complain
about wireless radiation making the children sick and giving every man and
his dog cancer, or the 'visual pollution' that the antennas/towers cause in
order to use them.

Damned if you do, damned if you dont.

--Damian


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Jeffrey Sims <jeffy at tehintartubes.net>wrote:

> The whole tone of the article screams "What if the terrorists do it
> again?", You know what if the exchange were made of cheese would the mice
> still eat it?
>
> We should be relying on Satellites and wireless, the crazy thing here is,
> what if the ground station of the satellite catches fire? What if the
> mobile tower falls over? It's all a large amount of "what ifs" and this
> fire whilst preventable with FM200 realistically, you can plan for every
> eventuality but where do you draw the line? At the tin foil hat?
>
> I just think it must be re-election season down there because he's just
> getting on his soap box asking for Minister Conroy to make his town feel
> all warm and fuzzy with the satellite beams from the wireless towers who
> don't need power or fibre to feed them interbutts.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Damian Guppy <the.damo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmmm, yes. We should all move to wireless because of an outage that cut
>> both physical lines and wireless (mobile) services, that will fix our
>> problem! Some one give this guy an award.
>>
>> --Damian
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Matt Perkins wrote:
>>>
>>>  Here we go.  It was only a matter of time.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.standard.net.au/**story/1144950/mayor-wants-**
>>>> answers-over-telstra-**breakdown/?cs=12<http://www.standard.net.au/story/1144950/mayor-wants-answers-over-telstra-breakdown/?cs=12>
>>>>
>>>
>>> "Maybe we should be looking further ahead at satellite and wireless
>>> links rather than relying on physical lines."
>>>
>>> <sarcasm>
>>> Ahh, right, because satellites just can't fail. And even if they did,
>>> you can courier a replacement there overnight. conroy is on record saying
>>> that "his" satellites "don't have latency problems"... so it all sounds
>>> like the perfect solution.
>>> </sarcasm>
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