From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jul 6 12:42:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA01297 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 12:42:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adams.berk.net (root@adams.berk.net [205.230.140.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01292 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 12:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adams.bcn.net (timmy@draco.berk.net [205.230.140.190]) by adams.berk.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA24782; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 15:42:01 -0400 Message-ID: <31DEC1C7.8BC@bcn.net> Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 15:43:03 -0400 From: Tim Alibozek Reply-To: timmy@bcn.net Organization: Berkshire County Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henry Spencer CC: Richard Foulk , hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: cable vs. ISDN (fwd) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. > > > > 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