From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 18 04:29:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA19436 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 04:29:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA19431 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 04:29:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA04379 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 07:28:36 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199603181228.HAA04379@hda.com> Subject: Cable modems To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 07:28:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: from "Wong" at Mar 17, 96 11:45:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Sun, 17 Mar 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > Cable modems are almost 700 times faster than 14.4 modems and > > nearly 80 times faster than ISDN connections. Cable modems do > > Only problem is you are sharing this with thousand other ppl. Which can be partially addressed by subnetting the subscribers. It is hard for me to figure out where all these approaches wind up - as you identify bottlenecks you can also identify work arounds. I saw that Motorola and Sun announced an initiative in this. I think the plan is centralized big Sun servers, essentially giving you web terminals at the other end of the cable modem. This will work pretty well even with unbalanced (high speed out low speed in) lines. Is any one working on cable modem systems that they can discuss? -- *** March 13, 1996: Our ISP may be GONE. You may never read this. *** *** "hda.com" connectivity is now intermittent to nonexistent *** Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267