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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (2814)	2/10/1999 1:07:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Thanks for that account, Mike. The IP connection to AOL is particularly revealing, as it may come into play with other systems soon. Is your RR modem one of the pre-releases that was geared to DOCSIS compliance? How will the interface on this standard be admininstered by multiple providers, each running different [and drastically different, i.e., voice, telecommuting, video, different ISPs, etc.) traffic profiles over it, are questions I'd like to see answered. Of course, what I am referring to here is the current points of contention between the ATHM Trojan Horse (which contains T's key strategists in its belly) and the interests of AOL and others in the Open Net Alliance who also want entry to TCI's plant. These arguments currently being waged, as far as I'm concerned, are nothing but smoke thus far, because there is no consensus on how multiple providers over a cable system can equitably administer the resources at the logical layers, as is also the case with an equitable means of allocating broadband among themselves. Think about the different scenarios that would ensue... how many providers could coexist on the same limited spectrum? Using the same QoS controls? Using different voice services providers beyond the head end? Oi! What havoc they are in for! Comments? Regards, Frank Coluccio

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (2814)	2/10/1999 5:52:00 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Mike, The "moment of wonder" sounds like possible backhoe fade. Were folks downcircuit from you, farther from the headend than you, denied service inadvertently. A sole user on an HFC should expect blistering transfer times. 10Mbps? Ray

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (2814)	2/11/1999 2:50:00 AM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

I had (have) a similar problem with RR in Tampa Bay area. SI access times slowly deteriorated to average more than 20 seconds per message. This was late at night and early in the morning, very off-peak. When we complained they told my wife that our line had a few errors on it and that by clearing those we'd probably be ok. My network experience says that's crapolla, that clearing an error count solves nothing. However, performance has gotten significantly better recently. Most SI messages are 1-2 seconds now, though some still go to the 10 second level. I don't know what they did, but I'll be complaining more frequently if my performance deteriorates again. Does anyone know of a good tool to measure performance of a session so that I can pinpoint whether the problems I have are RR, the net or SI?