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Walsall Gigaport: CRC detected?
The Stymaster Pig Blog 30 Jun 10
I’ve had this one simmering away gently for some time, but @walsallcouncil finally pushed me past the edge with this on twitter: “Good to see the launch of superfast fibre-based broadband in Walsall. Download speeds of up to 40 mbs help with the town’s regeneration”. They’re talking about a regeneration scheme: Walsall’s [cough] Gigaport. I have a few issues with this.
First of all, mention Gigaport to me, or probably any other geek, and the first thing we’ll think of is this, or similar. Presumably the Giga bit is meant to sound all modern and hi-tech…