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To: JGoren who wrote (8959)	3/23/2001 4:31:43 AM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 197035

my friend had to be wrong; ricochet website says 128kbps (eom)

To: JGoren who wrote (8959)	3/23/2001 10:10:13 AM
From: FedWatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197035

<there would be no degredation in speed > Very interesting point. Yes, now I remember reading something about CDMA that the VOICE quality does not degrade if you pack a number (upto a certain limit) of simultaneous voice calls into a CDMA cell. Does the same hold for data? Thanks... FW

To: JGoren who wrote (8959)	3/23/2001 10:58:27 AM
From: David E. Taylor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197035

JG: It's well known that the cable has the problem you are talking about, because everyone in your neighborhood is connected together and sharing the same bandwidth. I personally think that's a lot of FUD spread by the Telcos pushing DSL, though it may be true on some of AT&T's antiquated cable networks that were never designed with data in mind (vbg). I've been on Cablevision's cable internet data service since its inception in late 1998, and have not noticed the slightest drop off in download speed as they've added tons of users over the last 3 years. The reasons, according to the Cablevision network guys I've talked to are (1) data is "bursty" in nature, so not all users on a local node are continuously downloading large data files or web pages at the same time; (2) it's "packetized" and coded by each user's IP address, so all the data streams going to a local node are all mixed up and then separated and delivered to each IP address on the node; (3) they constantly monitor network and local node loading, and as the traffic on a node increases to its capacity they simple add an extra local node and divvy the users/node up. Seems to me the same will probably be the case for CDMA data delivery, and extra cells will simply be added where necessary to keep up with demand. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong on this. :) David T.