From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 8 04:55:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA28783 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 04:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flubber.futurecomm.com (bbecker@flubber.futurecomm.com [205.247.49.222]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA28770 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 04:55:51 -0700 (PDT) From: bbecker@flubber.futurecomm.com Received: from localhost (bbecker@localhost) by flubber.futurecomm.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA06731; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 07:55:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 07:55:44 -0400 (EDT) To: Richard Foulk cc: "Jacob M. Parnas" , hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199607060653.UAA29144@pegasus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Richard Foulk wrote: > 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. Well, a video channel -- With sound -- Is 6 megabits. So they are going to dedicate two entire 6mbit video channels to individual customers, for $50/month? Naah. Maybe they are going to set two channels aside for everyone. If that means sharing with 20,000 people then 6 megabits is not as good as a v.34 modem. Of course they can add more channels and give you a guaranteed data rate. What exactly are they selling?