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From: Joel Yancey <python@cia-g.com>
To: Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>
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Subject: Re: cable vs. ISDN
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All this talk about Cable modems. i Really dont think there such a great 
idea. 
Think about this:
(btw: this comment is not to spark an arguement, but point out why i 
dilike the idea)
well, First Off,if cable modems were around, ISP's wouldnt be, because 
the Cable company has taken over the business. plus, they CLAIM everyone 
will have 10mbps per house hold, well, considering that theres not thaty 
much bandwidth to waste for a bunch of web browsing crowd, and they say 
that there will only be 128k recieve, but 10mbps send. now thats strange.

*I* myself, dont like that opinion, because the cable company doesnt 
really know what a computer system is all about, and i dont like the fact 
that then they would have a monopoly. 

See YA,
Joel Yancey

On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, Henry Spencer wrote:

> > >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
>