From owner-freebsd-hackers  Tue Jun 10 13:47:09 1997
Return-Path: <owner-hackers>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01521
          for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:47:09 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA01512
          for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:47:01 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA28039
  (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:47:04 +0200
Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id UAA00782; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 20:47:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Message-Id: <199706101847.UAA00782@yedi.iaf.nl>
Subject: Re: Cable modems
To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 20:47:49 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199706100242.WAA00853@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Jun 9, 97 10:42:24 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a]
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

As Charles Henrich wrote...
> 
> In lists.freebsd.hackers you write:
> 
> >Has anyone tried out a cable modem?  I searched at dejanews for "cox" and
> >"cable modem" and found some interesting postings.  Some guy in San Diego
> >downloaded a 5MB file to his home PC in 30 seconds.  I also read that a
> >Cox tech is surfing at home with a bsd system. 
> 
> I have had a cable modem for over a year now (I think our system was one of
> the very first doing production, customer service), and well, it rocks!
> 
> The idea of a modem or ISDN just is sooo slow.  It helps that the cable
> company has a direct 10mb link to the university here, so I get on average
> about 200KB-300KB/sec to my workstation on campus.  And since MSU is connected
> so well, on weekends I get 100+ K/sec out to the net.  However, the cable
> plant and cable modem equipment can make a WORLD of difference, so buyer
> beware.

You Americans are sooo priviliged...

Wilko (looks green with envy :-)
_     ____________________________________________________________________
 |   / o / /  _  Bulte  email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands
 |/|/ / / /( (_) 	Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda
--------------------------------------------------------------------------