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To: pat mudge who wrote (17978)	5/20/1997 2:44:00 PM
From: mike angelo	of 31386

[GTE/MSFT servers] Pat, I'll take a shot at answering your question: >I was told it'll sit in the C/O or at the ISP or even in a specific company headquarters and that with it you're guaranteed the bandwidth your modem provides whereas without it you may be limited by distance and numbers of "hops" between you and your ISP or telco. Does this make sense?< It makes perfect sense. If the servers were located elsewhere, typically a router is used to map the connection to the remote server. Routers are limited by hop counts, that is, the number of other routers you must go thru until your final destination. When you get passed off to another router, you can be sharing the bandwidth of another customer to get out of the CO/POP you dialed into, and to your final destination at another CO/POP. If you are running Windows 95, you can tell how many hops away you are from your destination by invoking the "tracert" (trace route) command. You will be surprised at how many points you have to go thru to reach your destination. By keeping the MSFT server at the CO you first dial into, the ISP/Telco is preventing your connection from being routed to a distant end with shared bandwidth. Hope this explanation helps. Mike

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