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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (17924)	11/6/1998 4:05:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 152472

Maurice, Let's not confuse intra-office LAN and link to Internet. In LAN environment, 100 Mbs is common, Gigabit Ethernet is on the bleeding edge, the "old" technology - standard Ethernet is on it's way out. I think some people are under impression that the wireless 2Mbs connection will be in similar price range as your 56K modem connection. It will not. It will be costly. It will not be all you can eat deal either. You will pay per byte, and unlimited usage will probably be north of $1,000 per month. (My guess) At present, my best bet seems to be move house to an optical fibre link or wait for QUALCOMM's WLL to hit town. Meanwhile, my satellite dish has groaned into gear and things are not so slow now. In the US, there are several technologies being deployed: cable (with copper going to your house), ADSL over standard phone lines. Generally, the prices are in sub-$100 per month including ISP service for unlimited, always on service with transfer rates of 1 to 10 Mbs, more in some cases. Most people (in the US) already have 2 wires going to their homes (cable and telephone). Wireless will not be competitive with those 2 in any non-mobile configuration for a long time. Let's be realistic. At present, the only wireless data services in NYC are AT&T CDPD over analog band and some 2 way paging services. All are very low bit rate. There is NO CDMAone data service from main CDMA service providers - Sprint and Bel Atlantic. Joe

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (17924)	11/6/1998 5:40:00 PM
From: Peter J Hudson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Maurice, I've been entertained by your rants & vision for a couple of years, which makes it hard for me to believe that you don't see the benefit of 1000Mb/s. How about downloading a just released movie to play on your new HDTV. Receive the whole thing in a few seconds instead of having the satellite dribble bits to your tv or vcr for a couple of hours.