From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 5 23:55:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA23003 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 23:55:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pegasus.com (pegasus.com [140.174.243.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA22986 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 23:54:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pegasus.com (8.6.8/PEGASUS-2.2) id UAA29144; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 20:53:31 -1000 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 20:53:31 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Message-Id: <199607060653.UAA29144@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: "Jacob M. Parnas" "" (Jul 6, 12:29am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: "Jacob M. Parnas" Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk } >Cable has a good chance of blowing ISDN away. Much faster and cheaper. And } >it will be available in many places this year. More, next. } > } >Keep your eye on the cable companies. } > } > } >Richard } } Cable is a pain. It works only one way. If you want to send a large file } you still have to go slow. And, you still need to be a member of a ISP } as you can't write to cable, from what I've read. Slow compared to what? There are a few different configurations. Eight megabits in, three megabits out is one. Still way faster than other modes, even on the slower half. As far as I know, the slowest slow in cable modems is still fast. Our cable company here in Honolulu is apparently going to use modems that provide 6Mb in both directions. The promise is $50/month. The cable modem connects to your ethernet. The cable company is becoming an ISP, in a big way. Imagine how that kind of throughput could change the landscape. Richard