[RTC List] [2] AT&T DSL Outage?

[Josh Koenig]

It does seem like there are a number of people who want to do  
something about this. It's great to fire off a letter to the editor  
or to make a phone call to a county supervisor, but I think we should  
actually get *organized* if we want to have a meaningful impact on  
the situation. It will take some sustained effort and a wider base of  
public support to get real movement.

> It saddens me because I came here with an ethic of bringing money  
> INTO this economy form outside, but now I'm just going to have to  
> take that to Portland. But before I go, I'm completely on board  
> with any serious measures to put pressure on ANY of the "powers  
> that be" to rally absolutely everyone to the cause of getting some  
> redundancy up in here ( and I really think we need to "think  
> outside the box" in terms of getting folks who aren't as Internet- 
> dependent as we all are to see how it is affecting them and get  
> them on board with the cause ).

This is ultimately the winning argument for a campaign to connect  
Humboldt: getting reliable, scalable internet connectivity into the  
area is a critical piece of economic infrastructure for the 21st  
century. It's vastly more important than the rail project, for instance.

Satellite is a fine for some individuals and businesses backup, but  
it doesn't scale county-wide. More importantly, it is limited in  
terms of latency and overall bandwidth: it's not a building block for  
the future.

Josh Koenig, Partner
josh at chapterthreellc.com
AIM: chap3josh
1-888-822-4273