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To: ahhaha who wrote (17112)11/18/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: Moose  Read Replies (1) of 29970
 
DSL has all the same load problems and they are worse.

I'm not sure I understand this - could you explain? How does ADSL speed drop with residential load? Where's the problem? At the CO? I thought ADSL provided a dedicated link to the CO, where it is then routed to a fiber backbone.

An independent test conducted in May/99 showed that Cable was faster during the day, but slower in the evenings. The differential was blamed on the increased traffic home users present after biz hours and the fact that they share bandwidth. DSL just kept moving at the same clip as during the day due to its dedicated channel to the CO.

Re: competition
I'm not sure what SBC's report card currently reads, but back in the fall, they were planning on spending 6B to provide DSL capability to 10M homes and biz before the end of '99. This sure sounds like serious competition, but then again, I agree that true competition between DSL and Cable will be spotty and both technologies may even attempt to stay away from each other as long as possible to avoid price erosion.

Beyond all this, the only problem I currently have with the Cable model is its fixed locality in the house. DSL looks more attractive for homes with more than one cpu needing access since multiple phone jacks exist, but only one cable comes into the house. This can be seamlessly answered with routing technology built into a settop which then feeds the phone line, but this is a good year away from this being available.

I'm concerned with the DSL swell, but then I've hedged with NPNT.

Moose
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