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To: B. A. Marlow who wrote (2135)	3/31/1999 1:04:00 AM
From: neverenough	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

In MP3's standard implementation (including playback with Nullsoft's Winamp), a cable modem would have nothing to do with a file's sound quality. BAM, You don't miss a beat, as usual right on the money!

To: B. A. Marlow who wrote (2135)	4/1/1999 8:16:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

Hello BAM, I'll have to jump in ... ;-) > ... employment of a broadband connection for MP3 streaming > offers manifest sound quality benefits over dial-up Net access. Again, it's not that you're going to benefit at all in sound quality ... it's that the additional bandwidth gives you more "room for error" than a dial-up connection. When I dial-in using a 56k modem, and listen to a 24kb stream I have allowed myself a lot of "room for error" (i.e. slow or dropped packets, retries, etc.) and so my experience should be more "consistant" with less drop out. Also, my connection is probably the link that is introducing the most latency (or delay) in the network path between me and the source. When using a cable modem, the latency is very low, and I now have 10x+ the "room for error" vs. a 56k modem ... so I'm much less likely to run into congestion problems. The "bits" being delivered to my machine are always identical ... the difference is that if there is a delay in the stream I'll hear it as a gap or pause ... with higher bandwidth I'm less likely to hear it ... (Of course this doesn't take into account the load on the server that I'm streaming from, or it's link to the Internet. Remember that there are a lot of people out there connected via T1 ... and a DSL link or cable modem can come close to matching a T1 ...) Scott C. Lemon