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To: Jay Lowe who wrote (18123)	12/21/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Jay i was sitting here thinking that part of objective evaluation is is in forgetting subjective. I have broad band and lately it has been awfully slow why i dont know but there are times i have stopped period and then times where the speed of snail is about all i am getting. So then i wonder is my area getting more traffic is this causing the slow down? Will it get more clogged up as the subscription rate grows?

To: Jay Lowe who wrote (18123)	12/21/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Mainframe computers and telephones. Plenty of unutilized capacity in both. You could say they are both over-built. That can never happen with bandwidth, can it? Bandwidth is rising faster than your ability to invent words to futurize it. How does inventing ways to consume more yield a constructive experience? Bottlenecks tell you nothing about what is happening behind the scenes. There is declining marginal value of increasing microprocessor speed. What does it matter if all your applications return in 20 milliseconds or 30? It just means that you have to invent some more data to process. So is the ability to generate garbage in order to utilize what is available prior or is the building of garbage to generate more garbage prior?

To: Jay Lowe who wrote (18123)	12/21/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Give a minute or twenty, I could think up half a dozen applications which would suck up a terabit link in a hot second. Give me a couple that would be widely used. As the masses go online the majority of the bandwidth will be consumed by applications of mass popularity. What application in use on a high percentage basis will use more than 1 video stream/person? None I can think of. I still say that we discover somewhere around 10Mbit/person (bidirectional) that the demand for bandwidth is not infinite. Sure- people will want 100Mbit peak speeds but I supect that at this point the demand for more will drop off very drastically. Still a long way to go before we get to that point though... Eric