Re: Cable Modems (was Re: Telewest Communications FIASCO)

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From: Peter G. Strangman
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:00

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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:43:23 GMT, phil.henry@telcore.demon.co.uk (phil
henry) wrote:

> An aside: xDSL technologies can put 2-8Mb/s down copper.
> 
> However, cable modems won't be on the end of copper.

Eh? What will they be on then?

All this talk of super-fast access is really  rather
amusing. Unless the cable co is going cache and/or
mirror *everything* that *any* user might wish to
access there is NO WAY that users are going to see
any benefit whatsoever.

In my office I have my own (unshared) 10 Mb link to
wherever it happens at our place, which in turn has
umpty-ump Mb's to the world.
Typical download speeds, using a WWW browser, are in
the hundreds of bytes per second and, more often than
not, in the low hundreds. 8-(

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From: Peter@adelheid.demon.co.uk (Peter G. Strangman)
Subject: Re: Cable Modems (was Re: Telewest Communications FIASCO)
Date: 1997/02/20
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