Re: Homehighway

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00

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Paul Womar <{$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet> wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Horrocks <bh@granby.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > > Nearly, but not quite in that although the maximum speed might be the
> > > same, the latency of a TA will be slightly higher.
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> I guess you've got a bit of more digital jiggery pokery (technical term)
> going on, your mac converts the data to a serial stream, the TA converts
> it to ISDNish and sends it, if it's a PCI card you have a card on the
> PCI bus that just converts it to ISDNish,

Hmm...  But ISDN *is* a serial data stream, isn't it?

> I know that proably doesn't
> explain a thing but I've seen it reported several times.

It's not that I'm doubting the fact that it happens; I just can't see
any reason for it.

Rowland.

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