Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 10:58:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu> To: "Jacob M. Parnas" <jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net> Cc: Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com>, hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: cable vs. ISDN Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9607061043.A22356-0100000@zoo.toronto.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607060429.AAA04705@jparnas.cybercom.net>
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> >Cable has a good chance of blowing ISDN away. Much faster and cheaper. And
> >it will be available in many places this year. More, next.
>
> Cable is a pain. It works only one way. If you want to send a large file
> you still have to go slow. And, you still need to be a member of a ISP
> as you can't write to cable, from what I've read.
Depends on how good your local cable system is. The cable-data system
that Rogers Cable is introducing in the Toronto area is two-way (with
symmetrical bandwidth, amazingly enough, or at least that's the way it was
in the prototype system).
Incidentally, harking back to the original theme of this discussion :-),
the hardware used for the Rogers prototype talked to the computers by
Ethernet.
Henry Spencer
henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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