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To: J Krnjeu who wrote (16065)	10/8/1999 3:24:00 PM
From: JayPC	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 29970

Mr. J Krnjeu Thanx for the personal experience information. I currently pay one price for my Digital Cable and @HOME $119.95 a month. So I am halfway there. When cable telephone become s the norm, There is a strong chance I will hop on that bandwagon too. You're right, the total package may be a few years away, but parts of the package are here already. Wireless is the future, it makes much more sense. It may be the future, but it is a long long ways off. Even the Starship Enterprise uses fiber to connect most of its computers <g>. I am totally unsold on Wireless taking everything over. What do you do when everyone wants a piece of the wireless spectrum and there is no more room? Nothing. The Ether is a finite place when it comes to communications. It can be disrupted by weather, solar flares, mountains, airplanes. How do you connect 6 billion people in such a small and unstable medium? You can't. At least not yet. And not in the forseable future. How do you publish wireless to your personal website with your satellite internet provider? You can't. You dial in. How do you connect 6 billion people with fiber? Just lay a lot of fiber. What makes more sense. What is cheaper. Especially in Suburban America and Europe? So you may have a wireless phone at home, but it will one day be connected to your cable. Your internet will most likely be wired unless you live in the mountains. The future I see is fiber optics to every home. Wireless where this is not possible. Any thoughts out there from the techies? Regards Jay

To: J Krnjeu who wrote (16065)	10/8/1999 5:07:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Phone has a much higher distribution than cable. There will be a much high distribution of DSL than cable. Simply having telephone service does not qualify you to be able to get DSL. Its far more complex than that. Speaking from personal experience as someone who lives halfway between two central offices 10 miles apart... (DSL range is 3 miles) Next is wireless. Have you ever seen any estimates of what amount of bandwidth/person could be sent over a widely used wireless system? I've not seen anything concrete but what I have seen hints that wireless is completely inadequate for popular use. Fiber is the future. Eric