<It seems grossly negligent to me to throw out a figure of 10 Mbps
without also declaring how many users you are assuming on that cable at the same time.>
In hindsight, I admit to negligence in posting figures from memory, rather than checking what one local service offers. But given the kind of wild comments and figures thrown around THIS thread for ADSL (eg., "CAP is dead"), as a relative measure of negligence (see below), don't you think "gross" is a bit of an exaggeration?
Talking this am with my local cable co. (COX in Orange County, CA.), the downstream rates are represented as almost always at least 3 Mbps (for the vast majority - with a minimum of 1.5Mbps *guaranteed* for the few who get less) and ~1Mbps up.
The cost for this is $45/month, IF you subscribe to basic cable at ~$20/month, $55/month otherwise. So for $65/month (no setup fees/ modem costs) you get a cable modem connect and your cable channels. Not as good as I originally represented (which I acknowledge, at least for the COX service), but still compelling competition for any ADSL price or typical performance figures, and my point still stands - where there are cable modems, telcos will have a hard time competing.
And as with ADSL, the LIMITING factor is not the local loop, but the internet itself. There is virtually no difference between 1 Mbps and 8 Mbps local loop as the public net itself rarely gives that kind of throughput.
Steve |
