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To: Scrapps who wrote (3346)4/17/1998 12:59:00 PM
From: David Lawrence  Read Replies (2) of 9236
 
>>Don't forget cable is a means to by-pass the RBOCs...and it is many times faster than DSL Lite.

Very true. However, the big difference is that cable and satellite are shared bandwidth, meaning that your neighbors can kill your throughput if they are all surfing or downloading porno pics from the usenet at the same time, and snoopy [and savy] neighbors can sniff the line for your traffic since everyone's traffic runs to everyone's port. In the xDSL world, we're at the mercy of the RBOC, but everyone has their own pair from the CO.

Of course, Bob Metcalf says that we should view all of those pairs as one big bundle and pump 10 or 100mb ethernet through it (IP voice, data and everything else), which would blow away the bandwidth of cable, but we'd wind up with he same sharing issues. Damned of you do, damned of you don't.
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