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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (27907)	2/17/1998 12:27:00 AM
From: Niels Larsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

Yes, but cable modems are for home use, BT for business use (no real business would use cable modems in their present form.)

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (27907)	2/17/1998 12:32:00 AM
From: Marshall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

Bill, I only posted links to a survey but I think I know what you mean. You see - just because I'm currently connected at 45.333K doesn't mean pages I request are downloading at that speed. In my case I'm contending with an entire rack of modems which is competing with other racks which all eventually compete for the trunk leading to the net itself. This causes me to see the page build slowly as my ISP feeds part of something, then pauses to service another user, another, back to me etc. Chances are these early cable modem installation POPs aren't very crowded at present and you're home is connecting to a 10 Mbps Ethernet equivalent. Load that area up with power surfers and you'll probably start to feel it a bit too although probably never as badly as us modem users end up with during peak hours. Anyhow, chances are you're getting your packets in a much more continuous stream which certainly makes the overall performance faster than most modem setups. A final note: There are going to be conditions under which you won't be getting blinding speed. Many of the servers on the web are still only connected through an ISDN line and even worse - some still at 28.8K. When the x2 modems first hit the market a few of us in the USRX thread found a huge image on the NASA site we were using to judge download speeds. Might be interesting to find a similar multi-megabyte image and try it out.