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To: The Phoenix who wrote (38937)	3/13/1998 7:36:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

Cable is real... no doubt. The fact that you've had a cable modem is the exception - not the rule. Where are you? Bay Area? Seattle? Although Cablemodems have been around they are still a ways away from being a ubiqutous technology. Gary, Cable access is the exception. I do agree. I do live in a very small town in the Allegheny Mountains called Meadville. The population is under 10,000. This area was chosen from experiment since it was easy to monitor the performance when there were more and more users on the cable local loops. It proved one thing of which I am aware. The local loops here had no problem. The connection to the net can never have enough bandwidth. We started with a T1 to the sprint backbone in Erie. The T1 has less bandwidth than may cable modem at 10 mbs. By the way, the cable modem I have is a four bridge supporting four workstations, This modem alone could theoretically suck up 40 mbs (10 mbs each workstation). In anycase, they added another T1. That was not adequate so a T3 was added. We connect to the Sprint backbone so even if the cable company was willing to pay for more than the T3, Sprint does not have enough backbone in Erie at this point since they have an OC12 to serve all of Erie and us too. We are a long way from having enough bandwidth. If you have time, see this URL. It is the home site of the ISP that is working with the cable company here.. highwaygds.net Glenn