Lake County to speed up Internet

Matt Y.
Duluth, MN     11/30/2009 4:36 PM

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Matt Y.
Duluth, MN     11/30/2009 9:48 AM

MC please read..."current internet speeds provided by broadband are 105mB down 20 mB" I stated current speeds not what they would provide.

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Andrew D.
Aurora, MN     11/29/2009 11:59 AM

OMG. Some bright people in that County board there. I would love to see you get the whole County plowed, spliced, and all the electronics placed and bought in within 10 years. Kinda like the people that say " the fiber is burried in my ditch can't you just splice into that to get my high speed internet. Wow this will be fun to fallow and see how they do this..

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M C.
11/29/2009 10:46 AM

Matt Y. Why would there be a 105 Mb limit? If they run fiber to each house then you are talking a standard ethernet network which would move at 1000 Mb (Gb ethernet) across the switches and servers. Even PCs come with Gb cards in them with the cheap models. And no, no one needs this kind of speed. But think of it this way. The big water main that runs down a city street, does that all go to one house? Nope. So take that Gb that is running down your street and split it out a bunch of times because everyone in the area gets a cut when there line connects. Brings it down to what the standard person would need. And just because you have a Gb connection to your house doesnt mean that it would be wide open. Cable and DSL have the ability to limit speeds on individual connections (Internet speed packages, pay for what you need) and so does fiber. Network managment is just that, a managed network, not a free for all. Would be nice if they knew where all of this money is going to come from. Sounds like a very nice service, but a very expensive venture to me. Would not be good to tax people to help pay for this then have ISPs sell them the service so they can recoup their investment. While the taxpayers never recoup their money.

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Brad B.
Pequot Lakes, MN     11/29/2009 10:38 AM

It already involves tax payer dollars how do you think small phone companies provide high speed. I think 75-85% of a rural counties having these services is pretty darn good. The last thing we need is another task force to research a problem that doesn't exist, and we all wonder where our tax dollars go.

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My Opinion ..
Duluth, MN     11/29/2009 10:18 AM

I can see it now, a complete takeover of the Internet by the government and your taxes will support it for those that are disadvatnaged. Oh, that is the health care system and General Motors.

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Matt Y.
Duluth, MN     11/29/2009 1:57 AM

These speeds listed are a joke the fastest current internet speeds provided by broadband are 105mB down 20 mB up and to say those speeds are needed to complete those tasks are an absoulte farce. There isnt any sites/servers even fast enough to support those kinds of speeds about the only thing you could possibly do with this is P2P or interconnected networks via fiber. To top this off if you had a 1 gb service to your home what do you think you would be paying for that if I figure that on the current speeds (the 105mb beind $149.99 a month) times that by ten for the 1 gb you are looking at over $1000.00 a month. Im sure the gamer playing Xbox 360 in his moms house is going to fork that over.

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Mike S.
Duluth, MN     11/29/2009 1:40 AM

"Just how to achieve that isn’t clear." Well I'm sure it involves millions of taxpayer dollars.

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