From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 10 20:36:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA10653 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jparnas.cybercom.net (jparnas.cybercom.net [206.28.135.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA10648 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:36:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.cybercom.net (localhost.cybercom.net [127.0.0.1]) by jparnas.cybercom.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id XAA00559; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 23:34:45 -0400 Message-Id: <199607110334.XAA00559@jparnas.cybercom.net> X-Authentication-Warning: jparnas.cybercom.net: Host localhost.cybercom.net didn't use HELO protocol To: Narvi cc: Richard Foulk , hardware@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com X-External-Networks: yes Subject: Re: your mail In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 06 Jul 1996 12:31:33 +0300. Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 23:34:38 -0400 From: "Jacob M. Parnas" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message 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