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Article #862Re: Mediaone Hacker
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00
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In article <2rgi5s4h7qbjl3dajr2vkj3kpshvg86ifh@4ax.com>, Terry May <outrider@lvcm.com> wrote: >On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:12:56 -0600, "Ray" <trs_78@yahoo.com.removethis> >wrote: > >>I personally think its more a matter of economics. > >Exactly. It has absolutely nothing to do with greed. If dial-up companies >could get away with charging $40/month, they'd do so in a heartbeat. >They're no more altruistic than cable companies. They're simply bound by a >different set of market influences. It should also be mentioned that cable modem service has more infrastructure overhead than dialup modem service. It takes over 1,000 dialup users running at full blast to saturate a T3 connection to the upstream provider, but only about 30 cable modem users. So a cable modem service has far more per-customer expenses in circuits for its backbone and connections to upstream providers or peers. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@bbnplanet.com GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f922c,352c64dff021f82b X-Google-Attributes: gidf922c,public X-Google-Thread: fcb6c,352c64dff021f82b X-Google-Attributes: gidfcb6c,public X-Google-Thread: 113850,352c64dff021f82b X-Google-Attributes: gid113850,public From: Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com> Subject: Re: Mediaone Hacker Date: 1999/12/16 Message-ID: <o4c64.31$7d7.614@burlma1-snr2> X-Deja-AN: 561659361 Distribution: world References: <et0e5skoijne27mj0m1qr46k1817mp0fa7@4ax.com> <fd7i5s016eku2v834gcncedbam5h8ni5bt@4ax.com> <s5iatqnlqrs50@corp.supernews.com> <2rgi5s4h7qbjl3dajr2vkj3kpshvg86ifh@4ax.com> X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: abuse@gtei.net X-Trace: /K0ZEBZjk007bV2ZNmKc1x0/MQqtC0gsQvidltIn1cUUx7qN7p80hmi9QzNcSh984YIhN8kas4uN!Rk2VKRQJYjvGM0JIk7x1aPw2etydWGAHvkS3NxmhESwaIGYo1KYAbOBcZQ== Organization: GTE Internetworking, Cambridge, MA X-Copies-To: never NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:37:40 GMT Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems.cable,comp.security.firewalls,coxcablelv.talk Originator: barmar@bbnplanet.com (Barry Margolin)