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Frank Kahle wrote:
> 
> >> 500kbps to the desktop is a nice technology; hopefully Wave implements
> >> the backbone to support it.
> 
> Remember that this is not 100% true.  500 kbps is not to the desktop.  This
> bandwidth is to the entire block/neighborhood or whatever the segment is.
> The 500 kbps is then shared amongst all users in that block.

Well, until this xDSL vs cable argument came along, no one was telling
people with their PC's hooked to a corporate ethernet that "your don't
really have 10Mbit to the desktop"  (unless you count the tokenring
guys)

As things stand now in town, I think the *best* an ISP could do for
bandwith would be dual homed RNS and UUNet.  Reason; UUnet has lots
of good connections, and at least on the Canadian side has a reputation
for running a good network.  RNS because they seem to be the only one
with CA*Net peering (otherwise going through MCI->CA*Net is quite
painful)

-Ralph

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