Re: Cable modems (Springfield)

[--Damacus-- <damacus@bastion.yi.org>]

> Is Springfield getting any closer to getting service yet?

Yeppers.  Springfield is getting access, slow in the coming, but still.

If you live between Wabash and Old Jacksonville, you're within the current
North/South area.  The West/East is moving steadily east.  I know far west
already has saccess, and I'm (right next to the mall) getting my installation
done on this Friday.
 
> (Oh, BTW, *why* is this "cable modem" name sticking?  Maybe I'm just
> being anal, but the thing is about as much a modem as my watch.  ISDN
> "modems" I could understand, since they looked and were operated like
> modems, but what similarity does an ethernet bridge and a modem have?)

Agreed.  "Modem" has become a mass-market word.  It no longer means
modulator/demodulator, but instead, "that internet thing the computer uses."

-Mike
 
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