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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: Sam Citron who wrote (2947)2/25/1999 6:24:00 PM
From: MikeM54321  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
Sam,
One more thing I should have made more clear. BOTH GTE's Americast and Time Warner's RoadRunner cable modem service were extremely fast, at first. But that is an important point, "at first." I bet you I was one of the very first users on both services. Americast was up and running and then about two months later, RoadRunner was too.

I guess Americast could see the writing on the wall and solved the, "shared pipes," (a problem inherent to HFC networks) dilemma by simply choking off bandwidth. But RoadRunner just waits until the system slows to a crawl, and then they upgrade it to allow more connections with acceptable speeds.

I'm not an expert here, but I bet you with enough money thrown at the problem (using DWDM technology and huge caching servers), then every user could easily have close to 10 megabit service.
MikeM(From Florida)
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