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To: E. Davies who wrote (8884)	5/1/1999 4:22:00 PM
From: Clever Nick Name	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

From the links to articles on bandwidth posted already, I hope you realize the situation is very complex. I have service through rr with time warner. The Motorola cable modem we use has a 10 Mbit/s Ethernet output. This is the absolute max speed that can be seen on my connection. I believe that upstream speeds are limited to around 1Mbit/s. The DOCSIS standard allows for up to 38 Mbit/s downstream, so better performance is possible depending on the implementation you have. Within a year or 2 I expect to see tiered service, where you pay for the size of your pipe. This will give the cable providers the ability to supply a price point competitive with dial up ISPs. The thing to remember is that there are an enormous number of sites running off single channel ISDN (64 kbit/s). If more than 1 user is active on these sites, you cannot achieve even 56k speeds to the site [caching changes the picture of course]. The real, pry it out of my cold, dead, fingers, difference between a cable modem (and ADSL) vs dial up is the 24/7 network connection. There is no comparison between the real network connection you get with broadband services and a dial up ISP. The other day I downloaded some MP3s of classical music. At 1 point I had 6 different active downloads, all at 20 Kbytes/s! When a web site is slow (Etrade anyone?) it lowers my blood pressure greatly to know that the problem is not on my end.