Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 19:52:49 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Cc: jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net, hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <199607061022.TAA23787@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199607060653.UAA29144@pegasus.com> from "Richard Foulk" at Jul 5, 96 08:53:31 pm
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Richard Foulk stands accused of saying: > > 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. Yeah, right. And what fraction of their available bandwidth will you get? Who cares how fast your pipe to _them_ is, what's theirs to the rest of the world? And how many people do you have to share it with? > Richard -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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