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To: SteveG who wrote (27837)11/13/1997 10:29:00 AM
From: Peter Piper  Read Replies (2) of 31386
 
Did we ever conclude whether ADSL can cause more timeouts?

Came across an article in about the internet overload during Wall Streets' yoyo a few weeks ago. And I quote:

"No matter how good your backbone and your servers may be, if your clients have 14.4-kilobit-per-second modems, you have a bottleneck," McQuary said.

McQuary is President and COO of Mindspring, an ISP.

Article is at:

techweb.com

Wall Street Frenzy Leaves Website
Managers' Taking Stock
(11/13/97; 9:00 a.m. EST)
By Tim Wilson, InternetWeek

So can we conclude that all things equal, ADSL will reduce bottlenecks
and probably timeouts as well. All things dynamically unpredictable,
ADSL could wreck havoc and terror onto the ISP and backbone.

Peter Piper (your electronic plumber)
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