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To: DaveMG who wrote (19195)	4/23/1999 10:25:00 PM
From: John Stichnoth	Respond to of 93625

I took it to be rhetorical. :o). But, I don't know the answer. My "killer app" is voice recognition, which I think will take computer applications into a whole new realm, but which apparently needs above-1 gig speeds. Everything I've read says that voice recognition technology really isn't developing very fast, but they've long recognized that the processors just have to be faster to deal with all of the alternatives of recognizing normal speech. I had asked my question because the terms broadband, wideband etc. have different definitions, according to who you are talking to. I think eventually, as you hinted, homes will generally have true "fat" pipes coming into them, of 45 megs. That's a while away, though. And, I don't see cable modems/dsl mid-sized pipes (1 to 5 meg speeds) taxing today's systems; that's considerably slower than the feed from a hard drive, isn't it? I'd like to hear from some more technically literate, however.