From owner-freebsd-chat  Tue Jun 10 21:20:18 1997
Return-Path: <owner-chat>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA28214
          for chat-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:20:18 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from gw.qualitysemi.com (gw.qualitysemi.com [206.86.28.194])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA28209
          for <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:20:17 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mailhost.qualitysemi.com (mailhost.qualitysemi.com [206.86.28.11]) by gw.qualitysemi.com (8.8.3/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA24706; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:32:31 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from sun1.qsa.qualitysemi.com ([203.14.118.128]) by mailhost.qualitysemi.com (8.8.3/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA21494; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:34:03 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from localhost (julianj@localhost) by sun1.qsa.qualitysemi.com with SMTP id OAA18242
  (8.7.5/IDA-1.6); Wed, 11 Jun 1997 14:18:45 +1000 (EST)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 14:18:44 +1000 (EST)
From: "Julian Jenkins (QSA)" <julianj@qsa.qualitysemi.com>
X-Sender: julianj@sun1
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Cable modems
In-Reply-To: <199706102301.QAA03841@phaeton.artisoft.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970611140503.18033A-100000@sun1>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk


Moved to chat.

On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yes, but when Telsra did finally get around to offering cable modem
services in Sydeny and Melbourne, the service was so limited as to be
useless to all but the most boring of users.

It initially sounded good to have megaibits of bandwidth to the internet.
However all you can do with it is browse the web, read mail from thier
servers and telnet out. All other services have been disabled. This is
particularly usless to people like me, I connect my home machine to
the internet so that I can use it from work as often as otherwise.

And just to add insult to injury, it is only possible to authenitcate
yourself to their network using software that they will provide and only
runs under windoze 3.1 or 95.

So yes Australia wil likely get cable modem access earlier than the
states. Probably because we have only just got cable telivision and by
some fluke of nature somebody thought ahead enough to make it capable of
also carrying data. However it still is only usefull to the sheep.

Kaveman