blackrimglasses

tagged: technology

It looks like someone created a GSM/VOIP gateway. It is crazy expensive, but that is still pretty cool. I’ve been VOIP only for three years now and I’m not going back to a standard pots line. It’d be great if our phones would auto-negotiate to VOIP whenever they could, as packets aren’t individually commodified.

Here’s the thing though: we still have stupidly finite bandwidth in the states. I pay 110 bucks a month for a 6 down, 768 up line from Speakeasy. It’s a crazy fast line, but I still have audio problems on Vonage when I’m downloading from torrents on the G5.

I want fiber to my curb (or apartment building). I want cheap, commodity communication to the point where bandwidth is an insignificant concern. 20 mbits per second? That would be nice. We’re getting there. I live in an urban environment, and if I moved 5 miles I’d have Verizon’s fiber product.

Anyhow, back to this technology: it is cool. It’ll be very cool when I can move through the world and my devices could automatically keep themselves on the fast connection available without any user action.