Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 20:53:31 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) To: "Jacob M. Parnas" <jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Message-ID: <199607060653.UAA29144@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: "Jacob M. Parnas" <jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net> "" (Jul 6, 12:29am)
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} >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
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