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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (20577)	6/12/2001 2:58:17 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Videe one another? Gimme a break. I have enough trouble remembering to deal with the bed hair and shaving, oi! Once or twice a week, maybe.... Just Kidding. Actually, I've been having a ball being a video hampster with David Z. My studio like office is all ready for SI's bandwidth barrage. Bring on dem bits, boiz. As it turns out, my last mile ain't bad. 240 K up, 1.5 M down. Cain't complain. Seems to be about as good as life gets on the residential circuit. Most DSL is far less generous.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (20577)	6/12/2001 12:13:28 PM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

Last Mile or Lost Mile <<not if your lost mile drain is clogged..>> The state of the network today is a tragedy. Inadvertently you may have hit the nail right on the head with spelling of the that controversial subject, the Lost Mile. Many people are a bit hazy about the subjects that you and Ray are discussing some background would be in order. When you do a tracert command you are actually invoking a algorithm designed to trace the route to your intended destination as measured in hops. A hop is a connection from one router to another. Your first hops are all one your local providers equipment and will take you first to the local CO Central Office. The demarcation point between you and your provider is the end of his feeder plant and the beginning of the CPE or Customer Premise Equipment. This segment of the network, from the local CO to the CPE, via the local feeder plant is the L(o)ast Mile. When your tracert is running it will report, as allowed, the actual details of the hop it is making and you can see initial hops are on your local providers system, then they go to regional nets and finally to long haul backbones, from there they reverse the process and trickle down again to the CPE. In addition to the local network, your hops are made through Autonomous Systems, these autonomous systems are the connected networks that form the Internet. Fiber to the home is one solution being touted for the lost mile, there are others, wireless, connections over POTS Plain Old Telephone System and the ever increasing use of POTS and PANS Pretty Amazing New Stuff. In any event, the lost mile is the slowest point on most connections and the limiting factor in transmission of data. The evolution of the telecom industry proceeds apace, providing bandwidth at lower prices and spurring the adoption of broadband. Moore's Law still holds for technology and the speed of POTS & PANS has increased steadily and it seems likely that it will continue to do so. If you really want to say Hi! the best connection would be a full motion, full sound, real time connection for both your daughter and yourself, then she could watch you write the note. A simple note from the Evil Empire's flagship can be pretty large.