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To: Trey McAtee who wrote (9720)	3/13/1998 10:13:00 AM
From: Vladimir Zelener	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

Trey, <<AND, this is a good point about cable. you were on a LAN right? how many users were tying up 10Mbps available while you were DLing your file? same problem you will have with cable. THEN you have the tie in and competition for bandwidth with other users on different networks, all vying for space on your providers NI. at least with the phone company, the bottlenecks are reduced. >> You are correct when you are saing that the bandwidth of a LAN is shared resource. That it can be boged down when the number of simultaneous data transferfrom different users is too high. But you IMO are wrong thinking that 1. Overload of my LAN caused the slow down of the large file DLL 2. That the bandwidth of my LAN is 10 Mbps (It is 100 going to a 1000 in a short while) 3. That you will not compete for the bandwidth in the case of the RBOCs ADSL service. I believe DSLAM trunks are capable of 45 MBps speed, so all ADSL subscribers simultaneously running a DLL of some files from different Hosts will compete for this bandwidth. But this competition is hidden from you. On the last point you might argue that the telephone co will add trunk or two or whatever if the trafic needs it, and that whith LAN (cable modems) you can not do that. To which I reply I will take 100 Mbps shared with other LAN users speed (and in the near future 1000 Mbps) over ADSL light's 1Mbps any day. A 100 Mbyte video clip I have capability to be DLL-ed with 100Mbps LAN in 10 sec. and you will have to wait 1000sec = 17 min. with ADSL light. Your comparison of ADSL light with 56 Kbps modems is unfair as well. You have to compare ADSL only with Cable modems, because only in these 2 cases the customer is asked to pay premium for access of the Internet.