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To: Ilaine who wrote (924)	10/2/2000 5:59:25 PM
From: justone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

CobaltBlue: I also spent some time looking for satellite traffic information, without success. I generally find that" frequency folks" talk Hz while" internet folks" talk bps, and the two don't map well. With cable TV, a, DSL and satellite, someone has to map the two. I had the same problem finding HFC data capacity, but there they had to tell you eventually what the bit per second (shared) on a HFC were, and you could extrapolate from the number of homes passed some feeling for traffic capacity. I suspect the problem is that transmission follows Shannon's laws not Moores law, and isn't very exiting (unless you like information theory) to toss around coding algorithms for bursty noisy channels when you can just put out a press release saying Ghz! I would love to find an authoritative source on bits per second (pbs) per transmission type, bps per single subscriber (that is the number of subscribers sharing the transmission channel) and $ per bps per transmission type. Then we could do apples to apples, or bit to bit comparisons. In the mean time, DirectPC is suitable for those: 1) beyond a mile from a CO 2) without cable 3) or who can't wait for 1 or 2 Any ideas on what it costs? They slide over the issue on the FAQ on your referenced site.