Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 23:34:38 -0400 From: "Jacob M. Parnas" <jparnas@jparnas.cybercom.net> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com>, hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <199607110334.XAA00559@jparnas.cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 06 Jul 1996 12:31:33 %2B0300. <Pine.BSF.3.91.960706122641.15886A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.91.960706122641.15886A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>you write: > > >On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Richard Foulk wrote: > >> } >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. >> } > >> } >Keep your eye on the cable companies. >> } > >> } > >> } >Richard >> } >> } 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. >> >> Slow compared to what? >> >> There are a few different configurations. Eight megabits in, three >> megabits out is one. Still way faster than other modes, even on the >> slower half. As far as I know, the slowest slow in cable modems is >> still fast. >> >> 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. >> >> Imagine how that kind of throughput could change the landscape. >> > >And from where should trans-ocean, trans-continent, tnrans-etc. pipes >come from through which to press all that data? I can get around 500KB >from the local University's ftp setrver allmost anytime, but it doesn't >carry much I care about - and all that is at best around some KB/s - so >what's the big deal? > > Sander > >> >> Richard If its bidirectional, and they keep throughput up as usage goes up and you know you won't move too soon for it to make sense, cable sounds good. I think comparing home <-> internet connection to a transatlantic line is really comparing apples to oranges. Jacob
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