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To: Andreas Helke who wrote (28794)	11/19/1997 9:39:00 AM
From: Roland Fehrenbacher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

A T1 line has a capacity of 1.5 MB/s. So if you have 20 users hanging on it at the same time you are back at ISDN speed of 64kB/s. Not exactly a breakthrough. It will take years til the backbones will be able to support the theoretical peak rate of xdsl. So initially the bandwidth problem will be just shifted from point A to point B. The only positive for an xdsl user is that his modem won't be outdated for a number of years to come. That is if the providers won't opt for another technology in the meantime.