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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (1195)	1/21/1998 1:23:00 PM
From: bam	Respond to of 29970

@Home won't be coming to Palo Alto until Cable Co-op goes insolvent and gets acquired by someone who in turn becomes affiliated with @Home. Their rates are very high, but part of that is they can't afford to get the penetration because their plant hasn't been upgraded as much (large nodes and more noise). OTOH, PA residents are the ones most likely in the US to pay those rates. Beats the heck out of a T1. ----- To answer another question: Yes, cable modems are actually modems in the modulator/demodulator sense. The downstream path is usually either 64 or 256QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) and has a raw bandwidth of 27M or 38Mbit/sec respectively operating on a 6Mhz channel somewhere in the 50-860Mhz range. The upstream is usually either 16QAM or QPSK and can be from 768Kbit/sec to 10Mbit/sec operating on a 1-2Mhz channel in the 0-50Mhz range.