So you think a government granted monopoly to a MSO (read: Cable Company) is a "free market" ? You're not a sharp one, are you?

We are never going to run fiber to ever single random household in the boonies. Ever. It's never going to happen. The cost of the labor alone makes it unfeasible. What we need to do is focus on deploying fiber in high density areas TODAY so we can start deploying the services of tomorrow. Then, overtime, continue to expand the availability of fiber. We cannot hold ourselves ransom to an unattainable dream of fiber to ever home and stop building towards the future. You create this false dichotomy that seems to imply we can't move forward with fiber in dense metropolitan areas because not every outhouse in Oklahoma has fiber. It doesn't work that way.

You can do 10Gb/s over "RJ45 cable". More accurately you're referring to 8P8C (8 position, 8 ccontact) modular connector that goes on the end of the cable. The cable itself has another rating (i.e. CAT5, CAT5e, etc). Category 6 cable is rated to carry 10GBASE-T, or 10Gb/S.

25Mb/s for a single 4K stream, which will be the defacto in a couple years. The price of 4K TV's has already dropped to the floor (just look at Vizio's new models you can pickup at Walmart). Now consider the standard family of four. Two to three simultaneous video streams, someone downloading something, add in some online gaming and you've got a normal American household every evening of the year and you're EASILY pushing 100Mb/s.

I guess it depends on your opinion of slow. I think really it's just expensive. At my company we buy a lot of broadband backup for satellite offices (many, many dozens) and work with every cable provider in the southeast, and we can get 100-150mb/s in pretty much any area that isn't the total "sticks". Unfortunately it costs $250-$300/mo (this is for commercial service, residential is typically about one third that price). So yeah, pretty fast in my opinion, just pretty pricey. This includes Comcast, Mediacom, Brighthouse, Cox, you name it. Almost all of them offer 150Mb/s service I think Mediacom is the only one that stops at 100Mb/s, at least in the areas we run into them.

Too expensive (cost per home passed). Money is better spent battling it out in high density areas with high demand for internet service. It's simple economics.

Sure, that's not abnormal at all. You can saturate 10GbE with a handful of off the shelf consumer SSDs in RAID. A single SATA 6G drive is capable of ~4.5Gb/s (550-575MB/s) of throughput.

And what percentage of women vote on Sci Fi? Exactly.

Except that's existed for the last 20 years and the demand for web developers is growing, not shrinking.

Um, you seem confused. There's a very good reason you specify terminal (which is the default btw, all you have to do is type conf and hit enter twice)

Router#conf ?
confirm Confirm replacement of running-config with a new config file
memory Configure from NV memory
network Configure from a TFTP network host
overwrite-network Overwrite NV memory from TFTP network host
replace Replace the running-config with a new config file
revert Parameters for reverting the configuration
terminal Configure from the terminal
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That's interesting because I've found Cisco documentation to be pretty damn good, compared to the rest of the industry. Especially considering the breadth of their product line up.

or just use keepass. its free and you only have to remember one password. use dropbox to sync your keepass database to all your devices. i even have keepass on my phone. i actually use owncloud but have used dropbox previously and it works fine.

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the fact that you think taking a couple days to solve a problem is acceptable.

Try reading a little more carefully next time. No one blamed an iPad.

It's also just about the only device to come out of Redmond. Microsoft hasn't historically been in the hardware business. What are we comparing it to the Zune?