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To: JW@KSC who wrote (13787)	10/29/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: Trey McAtee	Respond to of 21342

jim-- right back at you! how have you been? are you holding any WSTL right now? we are quitely waiting for the grim reaper to show up and take the company to chapter 11 heaven<G>. good luck to all, trey

To: JW@KSC who wrote (13787)	10/29/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: Marc T. Archer	Respond to of 21342

HIYA Jim! I was just thinking about you what with the shuttle and all. Bet you ARE busy! Hope the launch goes well. Too bad WSTL can't get off the ground <g> Good Luck bud! MTA PS here's another excellent URL for the shuttle. members.tripod.com

To: JW@KSC who wrote (13787)	10/29/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: Dug	Respond to of 21342

<Very busy today but I will take the time to say hello> Just get um up there safely Jim. Many of the old timers still here & I know they appreciate the thought. Looks like lift off may have a positive effect on the market as well. <I've said it for 3 years, why stop now.......... :^) I Want My DMT> Would you settle for g-lite? ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg Honestly TI should send you a couple hundred for free or @ least a T-shirt. Jim, soon very soon. Just got done doing some major drainage work in the back yard this summer & guess what. Thats right, I took your advise & layed both the cable & phone lines so close to the heat pump that you would think it runs straight thru it. :} Can't wait for GTE to show up. :} I figure it will be a while here & suspect the phone lines will need reconditioned by the look of them. Take care, Dug

To: JW@KSC who wrote (13787)	10/29/1998 6:05:00 PM
From: matt gray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21342

thanks for the links Jim I appreciate the good information. For those who have not read the article it is a very interesting technical discussion. If I may summarize...the articles focus on modulation theory and noise effects. Why is this important? Noise causes Bit Errors which subsequently creating packet loss and destruction in IP packet transmission. However, TCP/IP is a sliding window protocol and destroyed packets cause packet retransmission until an non effected CRC checked correct packet is recieved. Noise effects overall data transmission speed...nothing more nothing less. The long and the short of all this technical gobbldygook is still speed. No one is doubting that DMT is faster....it is much faster. The DSP technology is remarkable and these folks are brilliant for creating such great technology. However the predominant issue is not that one local loop technology is faster but how fast is fast enough? For the foreseeable future [several years] I would argue that CAP is plenty fast. The bottleneck, unless someone can explain otherwise, is not local loop speed. An analogy would go something like this: I may be able to drive my IROC up the ventura freeway on ramp at 140 mph but if I encounter a traffic jam that moves at 3 mph what good is my 300 hp? If I can run at T1 speed [CAP] vs 7Mbps [DMT] who cares? When I hit my service provider and the Internet backbone I will be limited to speeds less than the CAP access speed. For instance, I know of at least one cable modem/CATV ISP that runs no greater than multiple T1 to the net. The question still remains why wouldn't Westell sell significant quantities of their CAP modem when ASDL rollouts begin?