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To: Mkilloran who wrote (4288)	1/14/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: Craig Rogers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

I guess I was asking for too much that ATHM had a positive close. I think the dust will clear tomorrow. All the bad news is out, people sold and took their profits. I bought more on the dip. Craig

To: Mkilloran who wrote (4288)	1/14/1999 7:52:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

They are more likely to meet the majority of their subscriber locations with a uniform 640 kb/s or slighly lower, is my guess, and that is why they chose a mid-point number. DSLs can be delivered from 128 kb/s to upwards of 12 Mb/s and 52 Mb/s in the case of VDSL designs. The speeds are variable, depending on which architectural variant of DSL is chosen. With increasing distances from the central office, or from a field pedestal, the speeds always decrease. If they had published 1.5 Mb/s across the board, they could only meet the requirements for this specification in a limited number of situations. At the same time, they would have increased the levels of expectations on the parts of users, which, again, could only be met in those limited situations. A tradeoff, in my opinion, must have been reached to provide a relatively uniform speed. One which was much higher than the normal POTS and ISDN, but at the same time one that was lower than the max. And in the process, one that would not vary much from user to user. It's got to do with ease of service administration, IMO. If there is one thing that characterizes an ILEC of Bell Lineage, it's uniformity of look at feel to all users for the same service. In fact, that is a regulatory mandate that they have in certain situations. Hope this helps, Frank Coluccio

To: Mkilloran who wrote (4288)	1/14/1999 11:18:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

DSL at anything much more than 500kbps is worse to have than running at lower speeds. 500 is bad enough as you move to the 12,000 foot CO to destination limit. You have to throttle down. Full motion video? How about full motion herky-jerky. Fast downloads? Not so fast after endless re-transmission tries whose error rate rises rapidly with traffic. With a loaded 'bone you're better off running another line's 33.6 model. Now there's a technology for the modern era, one that forces you to use the telegraph. AOL bet the farm on NSCP and DSL. It takes the highest arrogance to blunder that badly. Case must be under Jobs' influence. I can see them now, Gerstner, Jobs, Case, McNealy, Ellison, Barksdale, all those true believers in competition, getting together to plot the takeover of Ma Bell. They'll redo her in their own image.