Line wrapping for smart phones - Was: 18.04 LTS installation failure

[Mike Marchywka]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 06:37:19PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 11/06/2019, J.Witvliet at mindef.nl <J.Witvliet at mindef.nl> wrote:
> > You're missing some lines...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > * early "noughties" (2001-2004 ish) -- dialup all but dead. Early
> > adopters are on megabit+ and adopting wifi
> > * mid-noughties: wired internet is becoming passé
> >
> > ** tennies (2010-2019)
> > Wifi clogged up (too many users) and unreliable
> > 4G delivers promised latency & bandwidth only at "demo-locations", and, at a
> > price.
> > 5G got nicked-named: spy-net
> > Wired (not only fiber) delivers 200Mb and higher
> >
> 
> Maybe where you are.
> 
> Here in Australia, the No B#@@$y Network, when it does actually work,
> has been found to not provide the 100Mbps that the feral government
> promised, but, actually provides, at best, about 50Mbps (forcing
> telecommunications companies to refund lots of money, and, downgrade
> their offers, because they could not provide what the feral government
> promised), when it does actually work.
> 
> The landline Internet access in Australia, is now at the level of
> using two tin cans, connected by string. Some stuff gets through, and,
> some does not. And, most of the time, access simply does not exist.
> ADSL and dialup, were more reliable.
> 
> The only reliable Internet access in Australia, now, is using the 4G
> network, which gives speed test results about the same as the wired
> access (on the odd occasion that the wired access works).
> 
> Unfortunately, the feral government determined that Australia should
> not have reliable or adequate Internet access, and should keep
> deteriorating, technologically and financially.

I think I saw a radio amateur call sign in a recent post, curious if 
Australia has an active amateur community that provides 
better internet past whatever bottleneck you have- if so you could become one. 
IIRC packet switching
was going on in mid-80's on VHF repeaters in US.  Curious what if anything
is going on there  now for non-emergency usage. Any amateur network interfaces
with Ubuntu drivers?  I hate to think there is any windows support for stuff like that :)
 
 
> 
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> Bret Busby
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> West Australia
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