Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:22:12 -0500 (EST) From: Wong <wong@rogerswave.ca> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cable modems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960319071320.906E-100000@wong.rogerswave.ca> In-Reply-To: <199603181228.HAA04379@hda.com>
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On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Peter Dufault wrote: > > 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. I don't know if you can do that. the network is a bus topology. so what ever subnet you are seeing the same traffic. > > It is hard for me to figure out where all these approaches wind up - > as you identify bottlenecks you can also identify work arounds. This is an Engineering problem. If anybody can solve it there are lot of company will pay you tons of money for it :) > > 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. Techincal, it is a very good idea. mine is made by Zenith but more or less the same for what you describe. Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "we come with nothing, and we leave with nothing" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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