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To: FR1 who wrote (667)	11/20/1997 11:20:00 PM
From: Bnad	Read Replies (2) of 29970

(not just to Franz) I'm concerned about ATHM and other Internet cable providers' bandwidth need estimates. It seems to me they're all overestimating the effect that site caching will have on bandwidth use. I bet 90% of what I get off the Internet in a night is specific enough to be the first load in my state. I've read a lot about ATHM's backbone but haven't heard anything about studies done to estimate how much caching decreases the need for bandwidth. Not only that, but I've also read (in Rolling Stone) about a guy's experience with Road Runner cable modem service from Time Warner (he lives in a test area). The service "slows to a crawl" between 7 and 11 PM. And this is only under market testing conditions. It may just be a capacity issue, but the nature of the Net itself leads me to believe that caching just wouldn't help that much regardless of capacity. Some night, track what you do on the Net and think about how many of the pages you load would have already been loaded into your local cache server by someone else, since last update (many of the stock pages I see are highly custom charts that I doubt anyone would have loaded). And caching is crucial to providing high bandwidth point-to-point under the cable modem networks' strategy. Anyone have more info on this? Specifically, on what assumptions are being made about page load uniqueness by ATHM or other cable modem companies? Brad

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