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To: TREND1 who wrote (4591)	11/5/1998 1:41:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9236

>>>(3) Comments ???? <<< Not yet Larry, you haven't told us much, maybe when you get more time you can tell us. * Who is providing your service. * What your install cost and monthly rates are, along with how they are structured. Are there higher costs for peak hours? * If it's two way or one way cable. You get the gist of it. A link to your providers site might be easier. I've looked at Pac Bell's site already. Btw, the Digital Jam guy...did he mention what market or give a time for achieving that 80% ? I guess you meant guest. OR was it a...guest...guess? <gg> Cable may have 80% of the xDSL market now. Maybe someone else heard the person and can fill us in on the missing pieces.

To: TREND1 who wrote (4591)	11/5/1998 1:46:00 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9236

...he also said new fiber is at 90 volts, not 60 volts, so in the future cable could be used for phone lines. Larry-- I really hate being the dumb guy on the thread, but y'all keep saying things that go against what I thought I knew. First it was impedence and cross channel inductance in copper twisted pairs, and now with fiber. I thought fiber was plastic, and only conducted light, not electricity. Can you help and 'splain me how fiber can be "at 90 volts?" Thanks for the help, jim

To: TREND1 who wrote (4591)	11/6/1998 12:50:00 PM
From: John Curtis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9236

Larry: Fiber = Volts!?! This cannot be related to the fiber itself, so it must have something to do with the bridging/connection points? Anyway, cable internet connectivity currently has, imho, one MAJOR drawback. Drawback? Yup, it's basically a "party line" type of service. What do I mean by THAT? Simply that as long as you're one of a few in the neighborhood who have the cable internet connectivity then you can get the glory of the high-speed aspect of the service. However, should lot'sa folks in the neighborhood join up, then contention for the circuit goes up, and the speed goes south. And this is not to mention the "hacker" aspects of one or more of those same neighbors, with the proper knowledge, being able to monitored each others internet communications. Need I say I'm curious to know how cable companies are gonna overcome this limitation? Heh! John~