On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:50:14 GMT, Me wrote:

In article ,
Gunner wrote:

Sorry Bubba, but like firearms, nuclear weapons and oral sex, the
genie is out of the bottle. Even after a Collapse..the Net will be one
of the first things to become reimplimented. In one fashion or
another.

If you only had a clue as to what you were talking about you would be
classed a bit higher than "Moroon". In an American Collapse Senerio,
the Internet would far down the list of things rebuilt.

chuckle...you do realize that the Internet started out as a hardened,
multiple routing system *designed* to be fault tolerant to a nuclear
war? And was designed to have substantial back up power systems?

and that it has only gotten more robust over the years, now that it no
longer depends on copper wire and microwave links?


First, Power would need to be available coutry wide and in mostly the
"Big Cities" for the Routers that make the Internet work ti operate.
Second, more than 75% of the links are FiberOptic these days and the
MUltiplexers and Switches would also have to have power, which isn't
going to be around country wide after a collapse. same with the cable-Tv
and DSL/Phone systems. Just who is going to run the Dams & Nuke Plants
to provide all this power nation wide?


And the newer fiber optic links take *less* power and are *much* more
resistant to things like EMP....compared to the older links...

and as Bob G points out in another post...there are folks who are
capable of going long haul wireless, abet at fairly low (but still
significant) bit rates.

ck
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