My family farms. I can see some of the cattle out of my office window. That's not really a thing. You might be able to find a couple of magazine articles with it, but farmers don't do that, even when capacity is available. Not because they can't, but because they don't find any value in it.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Ringsmuth" <a...@andyring.com> To: "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 1:46:04 PM Subject: Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections > On Jun 1, 2021, at 12:33 PM, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > Show me an average end-user that can tell the difference between a 10 meg > upload and a 1 gig upload, aside from media-heavy professionals or the > one-time full backup of a phone, PC, etc. Okay, show me two of them, ten of > them... > How about the farmer using an HD or 4k drone with WAPs on his center pivot irrigation sprinklers to monitor crops? Or monitor the cattle herd that is currently growing the next T-bone or porterhouse steak you’ll be eating? ---- Andy Ringsmuth 5609 Harding Drive Lincoln, NE 68521-5831 (402) 304-0083 a...@andyring.com “Better even die free, than to live slaves.” - Frederick Douglas, 1863
