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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (8957)	3/23/2001 2:24:21 AM
From: FedWatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197035

<And ... can tell you that the scenario you described is exceedingly unlikely > Jon, Thanks for your reply, but in the world of cable modems this scenario is very well known. Your ISP advertises speeds upto 1.5 Mbit/s but they always forget to mention that this is in case nobody else is downloading any data at that time. If you question them they will admit that the reason you never achieve these speeds is because there is always somebody else downloading some data at the same time. Granted, many sites out there are not even capable to send data at that rate, but many sites are real fast. Yet, downloading data even from the fastest servers during pick hours is much slower, than, say, at 3 am on Sunday. The explanation is that many people on your street are sharing the same bandwidth. Similarly, there is no reason to believe that many people will not try to surf the net and download data on their wireless PDAs at the same time during pick hours. Don't you agree? So, I am still curious, if ten people download data at the same time, what is the effective data rate in 1xRTT cell and in GPRS cell? FW