At 10:41 AM 8/13/96 -0500, you wrote:
* I can see it now. Apartments full of geeks because the apartments * were originally built with 100BaseX to each place and a T3 in the * basement going direct to the local ISP.
Yes, it has already happened, although in a slightly different context. The Georgia Tech campus dormatories got wired with Ethernet back in 1994, and there was quite a rush by the sizable geek population to get dorm rooms in the buildings slated to get installation first. It worked out quite well, especially the privacy aspects, as the dorm routers encrypted all packets so only the intended Ethernet node could receive it (at least that is what they said).
So, in this case it was only 10BaseT and gatech.edu as the ISP, but it still was very neat.
Thanks to the Olympics, Georgia Tech now has 100% Ethernet availability in its dormitories. Currently the system utilizes a fiber-optic campus backbone with network hardware in each building providing a 10BaseT port to each student. Work is underway to install ATM hardware and upgrade ports to 100Mb/s networking technology. Jeremy L. Mineweaser | GCS/E d->-- s:- a--- C++(+++)$ ULC++(++++)>$ P+>++$ gt4436c@prism.gatech.edu | L+>++ E-(---) W++ N+ !o-- K+>++ w+(++++) O- M-- | V-(--) PS+(--) PE++ Y++>$ PGP++>+++$ t+() 5 X+ R+() *ai*vr*vx*crypto* | tv(+) b++>+++ DI+(++) D+ G++ e>+++ h-() r-@ !y-