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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (23039)	1/17/1998 12:49:00 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Jim, cable is a zillion times faster than ISDN, theoretically up to 30 Million bits per second. You do have to share this bandwidth with your neighbors and fewer than 10% of all US homes have access. Cable MODEMs are expensive but getting cheaper. If I could get cable 'Net access, I would sign up in a minute. What ISDN does offer is a relatively fast, highly reliable way to connect with another PC (such as dialing up your office PC from home). Craig

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (23039)	1/18/1998 9:18:00 PM
From: Richard N. Barg	Respond to of 33344

Cable modems are generaly not available in the Atlanta area. Where they are available, the big problem you have is the cable industry itself: 1. Cable companies are generally disliked by consumers for their high monopolistic, rates coupled w/poor customer service. I wouldn't expect they would be any better w/data connections or for that matter local telephone service. The last thing I would want for myself is another relationship w/my cable company. I recently signed up for the Dish Network and no longer have to deal w/the cable company here. 2. Cable modems may have all sorts of bottlenecks when the bandwidth is saturated over an entire neighborhood. Right now the rave reviews some have given them are in small experimental pockets where they have been tried. When morning rush hour kicks in, performance might not be so great. 3. ISDN gives you cyrstal clear upstream and downstream connections whereas cable modems (I think) are ony downstream, limiting their suitability for videoconferencing. ISDN gives you an exta phone line and cable modems do not. 4. I have no great love for the local TELCO but I do trust their quality of service and professionalism a lot more than the cable company.