Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:19:40 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ADSL Message-ID: <199603202119.PAA00535@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199603201653.LAA05552@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Mar 20, 96 11:53:41 am
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> 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. Actually you can, as long as it's only a small percentage doing it... > > 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. Actually, you _can_ probably place ADSL in a somewhat less expensive (read: ~~~$500-$750/month) category, I just ran the figures for a sideline discussion with both conservative and liberal overcommit numbers... but by the time the tarriffs for ADSL come around, it'll still be big bucks paid to Ma Bell on top of the ISP bandwidth charge. On the other hand, the five year trend is that it's cheaper than ever to move data, and getting cheaper yet. It may be that by the year 2000, ADSL would be affordable for (some) home use. I like to be optimistic! ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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