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To: Dale J. who wrote (58437)	6/22/1998 10:07:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Dale - There are indeed lots of flavors of DSL being discussed. The 'ADSL Lite' you are referring to is the 1.5 MBPS down / 128KBPS up flavor which will be pushed for home use. With the small number of cable users out there today, a cable modem will in fact have slightly more download pipe bandwidth than ADSL Lite, but the ADSL speed is per user, whereas the cable modem speed is for all users on a trunk, so as more users get on the cable available bandwidth to each will suffer (kind of like performance on a LAN as usage grows). I would expect both standards to make big progress this year and next year. The cable standard has the advantage that large numbers of users already have the plumbing, and the performance is way better than telephone modems. Eventually, as cable modem usage grows, the download performance will be more like what ISDN users experience today. At the moment other infrastructure issues are limiting performance anyway. Eventually I would expect ADSL to become the standard for power users and multiple connection sites, with the lite version being the choice for most mobile and sophisticated single users. Cable modem will fill in for general purpose home use among less sophisticated users.