[MLB-WIRELESS] Fwd: Lord of the Rings style link to NASA Canberra

[Ratbaggy]

It seems not!
Check out "Butters' Law", leaves Moore's law in its dust, a doubling 
every 9 months!!!!

Sjors Provoost wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Sunnz <sunnzy at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sunnzy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     2008/7/23 Sjors Provoost <sjors at sprovoost.nl
>     <mailto:sjors at sprovoost.nl>>:
>     >
>     > We have only connected myself (11 Mbit is still a bit slow in my
>     standards;
>     > I won't share that...). And I pay $30 dollars a month for twice
>     that in The
>     > Netherlands. Assuming the equipment lasts for 5 years (or at
>     least the link
>     > becomes irrelevant because Australia might, , I hope, be bathing
>     in cheap
>     > broadband by that time and Moore's law will make 11 Mbit sound
>     pathetic), I
>     > would be looking at a bill of $400 dollars a month, plus actual
>     internet,
>     > plus maintance.
>     >
>
>     Hey I didn't know that network speeds obey the Moore's law as well...
>     or do they??
>
>
> Probably not from a hardware point of view, but from a price-per-GB 
> point of view it does get cheaper, fast. Not here though :-)
>
> Sjors
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