Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 14:18:44 +1000 (EST) From: "Julian Jenkins (QSA)" <julianj@qsa.qualitysemi.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cable modems Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970611140503.18033A-100000@sun1> In-Reply-To: <199706102301.QAA03841@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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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
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