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To: RTev who wrote (8913)	5/2/1999 4:48:00 PM
From: Clever Nick Name	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

The bottom line here is that one broadband service is not going to win out over another on the basis of bandwidth. The winners will be decided on price and rollout rate. Having said that I can't resist tearing apart a very weak study. 1) It appears that the DSL and cable service were on two separate systems. Since he specifies that his wife's system was a Mac, let's list the possible performance difference between systems that weren't discussed {if they aren't mentioned you gotta bet they weren't the same}. a) Browser rendering speed (even for the same browser pc vs mac performance may vary) b) Disk performance c) CPU performance d) Selected screen resolution and bit depth 2) Comparing web sites is hardly a good test of bandwidth. Good page design practice keeps all pages under 40-50k, making differences in download performance difficult to discern. 3) if one connection to a site happens to have a small latency advantage (fewer hops for example), then that system's request will be filled first, possibly clogging the bandwidth required for the second page request. I believe the second pc magazine study cited used a collection of client machines making thousands of requests to a number of different servers over the course of a month and at many times of day. The result of that study was, cable is faster. But like I said, it's cost and speed of rollout that are going to count.