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To: gnuman who wrote (42377)	12/16/1997 4:17:00 PM
From: Barry A. Watzman	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Re: cable modems Your PC has an ethernet card to connect to the cable modem, which talks to the server at the cable company's head end. That server is DIRECTLY on the internet itself, or has very high speed lines (T-1, etc.) to another server which is directly on the Internet (depends on the size of the system). It is "true" internet; the only potential rub is that the available cable bandwidth is divided among the number of people using it at one time (in your cable "neighborhood", usually about 2,000 homes but varies). It gets slower and slower as more people use it at the same time (note, we are talking about actual USE, not simply being signed up for the service or even having your PC on). To your PC, it looks like a local lan connection to the internet, not like a dialup connection. By the way, I thought that "Road Runner" was a trademark of Time-Warner cable rather than TCI.

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