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| Workgroup: De Waag, Amsterdam
| URL: http://www.waag.org/bandwidth
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TODAY IS: 08.07.97
Day 1 - 2400 bps - FLINSTONE SPEED
We set up our basic campWe are trying to keep the on-site and on-line happyWe had an interesting encounter with the DX window shoppersand installed some of our research toolsCheck also the bandwidth website http://www.waag.org/bandwidth/
QUOTES OF TODAY:
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 22:10:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: John Horvath X-Sender: jhorv@helkaTo: bandwidth@waag.orgSubject: something for you(....) Thus, by demanding more bandwidth rather than concentrating on, and supporting the development of, less band-intensive web sites and applications, the dichotomy between "us and them" will linger on while the chasm separating the rich and poor widens, perpetuating the social, economic, and political injustices that such segregation breeds.John HorvathBudapest, Hungary
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TODAY IS: 09.07.97
Day 2 - 9600 bps - OBSOLETE
BANDWIDTH OR BANDWITHOUT
speeded up slowly to the obsolete 9600 bpscollected many new slogans and quotes (see below)started to read the Documenta X manual - twice as heavy as the average dummie-guides - 830pages - First sentence:"Like democracy information is not a right but a practice, not adream but a passion".
We feel very passioned.
broadcasted live the telephone-interviews, meassuring the bandwidth in Estonia, Amsterdamand New York (on-line soon)recited two reports from Paris and Amsterdam - check the news-group18 new personal reports from the public
QUOTES OF TODAY:
Bandwidth is the capital of the information economy. Commercial use of the networksshould be tax rated. Public use of the networks should be free.
Broadcasting for all means to have the power to speak and the ability to expressyourself. To have access to the bandwidth is a fundamental democratic right for allciticens of the world.
The demand for more bandwidth reflects the desire for an open and transparentcommunication space.
The distribution of bandwidth not only reflects the distribution of economic poweracross the globe it also intensifies it.
During the rountable of the Networked Economy Conference held in Paris 20-21 May 97many speakers mentioned the necessity of "restriction" : restriction of costs, of costs ofownership, of access to new services which overwhelmed the users and turn them intotechnology's slaves, restriction of quantity and therefore choice with filters like "pushtechnology". A true paradox as networks' technology is supposed to widen the scope ofcommunication and access to knowledge, and globally enhance the user's life and theoperators' profits. It is now obvious that states and business actors want to take controlover the Net to bend its developement (in other words restrict it) to fit their interests,regardless to the users' ones.
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TODAY IS:10.07.97
Day 3 - 14k4 - last years model
P U S H B A C K
we finally arrived at the amazing speed op 14k4; at least that was how we experienced it3 years ago when we upgraded our 2400 baud modems. Most people arrived at this speed lastyear, and now they have to boost up to at least 33k to stay in the game - hence the title:'last years model'. a lot of research was done today. We found a lot of material on bandwidth and the spreadof it (better: concentration) on various websites. More on this on the Bandwidth-site ofThe Society for Old and New Media. Our photofun-team took the reality of Kassel/Documenta and transformed it into a virtualdemonstration for more bandwidth. Images will follow. Received a lot of bandwidth-reports from all over the world. We had a close encounter with a group from Frankfurt who are trying to reclaimstreet-bandwidth. Secret meetings about an even more secret nightly rave party tomorrowwere supposedly organized. During the dialogue we have with our special reporter John Horvath we decided to changeour strategy: instead of asking for more and more bandwidth now we demand dual standardbandwidth, Highspeed amazing fullfeed video multimedia T3 connections for all broadcastingcitizens and parallel Flintstone-speed for all other vital communication needs. Sloganswill be altered accordingly during the coming days.
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TODAY IS: 11.07.97
Day 4 - 28k8 bps - ok for now
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TODAY IS:12.07.97
Day 5 - 33k6 bps - too fast for most of us
EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL
the structure of what we are doing here is becoming more and more clear; the first coupleof days we investigated which parts of the world have bandwidth and which parts don't. Nowwe start investigating the power structures (who owns the bandwidth). Next week we will belooking into the wireless world of telecommunications, from grassroots packet switching tocommercial sattelite networks. we interviewed Saskia Sassen and Tom Keenan, both lecturing @ the 100 Tage Programme ofDocumenta X we learned a lot about financial and economic power structures. Power isspatial. The Kino of Documenta X is one of those. The elite is gathering to legitimatetheir views. the 'we want more bandwidth' group is basically operating by the samestrategies. the people of Bellissima (broadcasting group from Amsterdam) arrived yesterday and joinedour production team. we interviewed Joseph 'Boogie' Viegas from Goa, India. he is an internet expert. heexplained to us the access and bandwidth situation in India, wich is still restricted dueto govermental interference and monopoly position of the (state owned) providers we investigated the underwater bandwidth of the world. Fiberoptics lying at the bottom ofthe deepest oceans, connecting the financial elite centers of the world. We also startedlooking into Who Owns What in telecommunications. Great help was Boardwatch magazine. a spokesperson of RIPE (the authority that gives out IP-numbers, the house-numbers of theinternet) was interviewed about the IP schemes of the new world. It seems IP-numbers aregiven out on a basis of need; we question this: the technological routing structure of thenet also automatically imposes a hierarchy in the distribution of the numbers.
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TODAY IS: 13.07.97
Day 6 - 56 kbps (X2-technology) only with a special modem
EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL
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| Workgroup: De Waag, Amsterdam
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| Society for Old and New Media
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TODAY IS: 14.07.97
Day 7 - 128 kbps dual speed ISDN, not for everybody
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| Workgroup: De Waag, Amsterdam
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TODAY IS: 15.07.97
Day 8 - T1 1,544 Mbps some have it to their kitchen, some don't
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TODAY IS: 16.07.97
Day 9 - T2 6,132 Mbps why not
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TODAY IS: 17.07.97
Day 10 - T3 44,736 Mbps speed party!
BANDWIDTH FOR ALL
Our Campaign in Kassel closes today. The new group from Vienna is
knocking on the door, drinking coffee at the terras.
This morning we received by fax the first press publication (in a
local Kassel newspaper) in response to the press conference of
yesterday.
We recovered from the high bandwidth party we organized last night.
Many people came to the party and they even organized their own
performance acts.
The approximately 500 responses to our bandwidth questionaire were on
display in the workspace today.
In a way sad and happy that the We Want Bandwidth action is over now,
we are certain that the end is over now, we are certain that the end is
merely a beginning...