From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 20 08:51:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA14625 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA14618 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA05552; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:53:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:53:41 -0500 Message-Id: <199603201653.LAA05552@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Tony Kimball From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: ADSL Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > And how many "dial-up" users will be willing to pay for 1-8Mbs of backbone > bandwidth? It seems unlikly that many ISPs will have the backbone > bandwidth to allow all of their customers to enjoy these speeds at ISDN > like prices. ISPs will need a roomful of Cisco 7000s, which should make > the price just about unreachable for almost anyone. > >99.9% of that bandwidth is going to go to VOD. Me, I just want to >push the bottleneck out of my house into the ISP premises, then I'm happy. >If the ISP is inadequate to my needs, I'll shop for another ISP. Shop til you drop! we just added features that let an ISP FILTER OUT video traffic, because you can't let a someone paying $22. a month run CUSEEME on a 28.8 line for 6 hours. > > You've been reading Network World again, haven't you? > >Never touch the stuff. Allergic to paper. > > BTW: ADSL is largely monodirectional (like 240kbs in one direction and 1.?? > meg downstream). In any event, you'd better crank up the crystals on those > 16550's boys.....~~~~~.whoooosh...... > >SDSL is symmetric. If you feel the need for 4Mb uploads you can >either wait for SDSL to be competetive or run dual ADSL. >In most of USWest country, it's still cheaper than ISDN, although >doubling the hardware and lease costs does push the payback out >from a few months to a couple of years. Of course, thats not what you said, but thats another story. The issue is not the cost of the wire, but the cost of the service. With T1 service priced at $1000. a month, I don't think that the average Joe is going to dump his dial-up connection for it even if the modem and the line are free. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX