I, Cringely: The Limits of SpongeBob SquarePants
Oct 02, 2004, 01:00 (3 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Robert X. Cringely)
"Like many of us, Andrew Greig put a WiFi access point in his
house so he could share his broadband Internet connection. But like
hardly any of us, Andrew uses his WiFi network for Internet,
television, and telephone. He cancelled his telephone line and
cable TV service. Then his neighbors dropped-by, saw what Andrew
had done, and they cancelled their telephone and cable TV services,
too, many of them without having a wired broadband connection of
their own. They get their service from Andrew, who added an inline
amplifier and put a better antenna in his attic. Now most of
Andrew's neighborhood is watching digital TV with full PVR
capability, making unmetered VoIP telephone calls, and downloading
data at prodigious rates thanks to shared bandwidth. Is this the
future of home communications and entertainment? It could be, five
years from now, if Andrew Greig has anything to say about
it..."
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