Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 14:49:00 -0400 From: gwh@spiders.com (Gene W Homicki) To: Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>, bbecker@flubber.futurecomm.com Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: cable etc. Message-ID: <199607081849.OAA03169@charlotte.spiders.com> In-Reply-To: Henry Spencer's message as of Jul 8, 12:40
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+--- | Bear in mind that what they are selling is high data rates. Their whole | stock in trade is that they are better than modems. They'll move the | equipment as far down as necessary to achieve that. +--- My apologies if this is going even further off topic for these mailing lists, but: Everyone keeps talking about the bandwidth from the home to the ISP (whether that ISP is a local ISP, cable or regional bell company), but I find that very often the limiting factor is the ISP interconnection points (the NAPs and MAEs especially). Its all well and good to have a blindingly fast connection to your ISP, as long as the resources you want are on another machine using the smae ISP (assuming your ISP's own backbone isn't saturated). Until there are more ISP interconnections, having the very high bandwidth to the end points is kinda useless much of the time (unless you just want the resources your ISP provides..ha ha). A good example of this is some recent congestion problems we had with MCI (yay). They kept telling us how thigs would get better when they upgraded their backbone to OC-3 (155Mbps)....things got worse, because it just made the interconnection points worse (in this case the Sprint NAP in the NY area). It wasn't until they brought more direct interconnections (with UUnet, another gem of a company) online that we got somewhat useable service. Now back to our regularly scheduled discussion. Gene -- Gene W. Homicki gwh@spiders.com Objective Consulting, Inc. http://www.spiders.com/ Internet Presence Design voice: +1 914.353.3511
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