Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:01:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, michaelh@cet.co.jp, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cable modems Message-ID: <199706102301.QAA03841@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199706101847.UAA00782@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Jun 10, 97 08:47:49 pm
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> As Charles Henrich wrote... [ ... cable modems ... ] > You Americans are sooo priviliged... Speak for Charles! The rest of us live in the armpit of the telecommunications industry (like US West and TCI cablevision) and we don't have nice things like cable modems available, though many of us would rush out and buy them immediately if we could only get service. Accordig to an article in Forbes magazine two years ago, peasents in Brazil have better wire service than I do. TCI recently backed out of their commitment to cable modems in our area; we were supposed to have them about 6 months ago. Caveat: US West is (supposedly) going to be selling Digital Subscriber Lines soon. Caveat to the caveat: They will be async (ADSL) instead of sync (SDSL) so the data rate up is going to make them useless to anyone who isn't buying the things purely to let them push commercial content at you (which is most everyone), so it's not going to help. The when it doesn't sell, they will become even more intransigent about metered rates and other crap to try and recoup their losses. I suspect Europe and Australia to have universal high speed access *long* before the US, simple because you guys don't have a badly managed antiquated infrastructure that they are still trying to amortize over the remaining portion of their 20 year accounting cycle. Bah Humbug! Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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