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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (3004)	3/3/1999 8:31:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Mike, that's interesting. GTE doing VDSL for TV delivery, you say? Maybe the installer was mistaken about the 1Mb/s rate. VDSL, I believe, begins at 12 Mb/s, working upwards to 52 Mb/s at the high end. GTE and one of the Japanese firms was actually working on higher speeds in the labs a couple of years ago, but I think they topped out, for all practical purposes, at the 52 mark. This approach demands extremely short drop lines (last ~1000-1500 feet of delivery) from the remote digital field terminal. What town/city/locale would that be? Curious. Frank C.

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (3004)	3/4/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: Sam Citron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Mike, "...my connection to SI is as fast as you can blink your eye..." Now that your cable modem is humming, could you say a word or two about the experience of watching streaming video on the web at these speeds? Are you able to get near 30 fps quality without the jerkiness usually associated with such images at the usual 28-56kbps speeds? Now that you have the speed, can you get good streaming video images in formats bigger than the usual postage stamp size normally associated with this medium? Sam