Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 15:43:03 -0400 From: Tim Alibozek <timmy@bcn.net> To: Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu> Cc: Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com>, hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: cable vs. ISDN (fwd) Message-ID: <31DEC1C7.8BC@bcn.net> References: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960706153708.28898A-100000@adams.berk.net>
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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 I just got back from Montreal and from what I understand...the modern part of Montreal have bi-directional 256k/256k cable modems and the not so modern parts of Montreal have bi-directional 256k/72k cable modems. -- Tim Alibozek | The Berkshire County Network System Administrator | A full service Internet Service Provider EMail: timmy@bcn.net | Serving Berkshire County and beyond
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