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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 10:58:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>
Subject: cable vs. ISDN
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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.
> 
> 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.

Depends on how good your local cable system is.  The cable-data system
that Rogers Cable is introducing in the Toronto area is two-way (with
symmetrical bandwidth, amazingly enough, or at least that's the way it was
in the prototype system).

Incidentally, harking back to the original theme of this discussion :-),
the hardware used for the Rogers prototype talked to the computers by 
Ethernet.

                                                           Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@zoo.toronto.edu