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To: Bob Frasca who wrote (165306)	5/11/2001 11:47:58 AM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Bob Any particular reason why this is so? Most "last mile" technologies don't come anywhere near the speeds that a PC can handle. In these days of gigabit ethernet and fibre channel, 8 mbps download speeds are puny and that's the very fastest DSL speeds. Hard drives with fibre channel interconnects can handle up to 10 gigabits per second. Most retail NIC cards can handle 100 mbps. Most so called "broadband" connections are only at 1.5 mbps. (That's what my cable modem will do.) your speeds are relative to closed environments. and just about all internet environments still remain closed relative to full broadband application. downloading something as simple as a song through the net from an ethernet connect to a 56k is still subject to the slowest connect. there are many more variables involved in 'speed' and bandwidth than your particular setup your cable modem at 1.5mbps is still faster than 90% of all pcs out there. that means open environments are still only applicable to 10% to 15% of the pc and workstations currently installed; and even less outside the U.S. you're also possibly intermingling my use of the term 'pc' with that of a corporate workstation besides, those 'published speeds' are not what you ultimately receive anyway; especially in the wireless arena. Intel was publishing that their 802.11 was capable of downloads up to 11mbps. yet, in very small letters on their setup, the average time it took to download 1mb of data was 7 minutes.