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To: Trey McAtee who wrote (9710)	3/12/1998 3:16:00 PM
From: Vladimir Zelener	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

Trey, <<... until i thought about the way things are set up. we arent talking about a continuous flow at 1.5Mbps or greater, but instead burst traffic where the max throughput is in that speed range. say a webpage is around 1.5MB, then it would take roughly 8 seconds for a browser to DL the page at the g.lite speed. but, once its downloaded, the connection isnt pulling all that much data.>> 1. You are completely wrong!!! I just dll-ed 2.5 mb. file and it took more then 1 min, even though our LAN has couple of T3 connections to the Internet. The file traverses thru multiple trunks which connect differen Internet networks and Hosts. The thruput of all the trunks has to be increased 100 times to support your 1.5 Mbps burst at the last mile. 2. Second point is once there is a 1.5 Mbps last mile many Hosts will try to take advantage of it by giving the serfer a 50 to 100 Mbyte files. Instead of downline loading the picture (newspaper like news) from CNNfn for instance you will DLL the video clip (TV like news). As a result the utilization of the last mile connectivity will be much higher then you assume and the load on the backbone will be quite huge.