Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 18:52:37 -0400 From: "Jacob M. Parnas" <jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net> To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Message-ID: <199607062252.SAA07299@jparnas.cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 05 Jul 1996 20:53:31 -1000. <199607060653.UAA29144@pegasus.com>
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In message <199607060653.UAA29144@pegasus.com>you write: >} >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. >} > >} >Keep your eye on the cable companies. >} > >} > >} >Richard >} >} 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. > >Slow compared to what? Well, what were we comparing it to? ISDN. >There are a few different configurations. Eight megabits in, three >megabits out is one. Still way faster than other modes, even on the >slower half. As far as I know, the slowest slow in cable modems is >still fast. But I think if you research carefully its receive only. Send must be done through some other channel like a V.34+ modem. >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. Is it bidirectional (ie can you send) or does that have to go through some other channel? >Imagine how that kind of throughput could change the landscape. Well, that's in theory. If it was widely marketed at that price and bidirectional, that 3-8 mbits/second, Usually without putting a whole new set of cables underground (or above), its bandwidth would be split by many users and the for 1000 users, on average, that's the same as 3-8 Kbits per second. And if you have to move, you may be out of luck. >Richard > Jacob
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