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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Cardinal or USR?
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 23:04:09 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4cf219$1akk@useneta1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <N.122495.163105.30@DeathStar.vvm.com> <4bv4qt$sb@steel.interlog.com>
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- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
-
- In article <4bv4qt$sb@steel.interlog.com>,
- Dave Glue <daveacg@interlog.com> wrote:
-
- | Not true. Most cable modems will allow you to upload, even
- | significantly faster than ISDN. The expiremental cable modem setup
- | close to TO here in Newmarket, Ontario Canada already has apparently
- | been going very well. Upload speeds at the start will of course not
- | compare to download speeds and I can't recall the exact speed, but it
- | was still higher than ISDN.
-
- Note that cable existing systems are set up to send, not receive. In
- fact many take some effort to block reverse signals to keep noise
- off the lines. Therefore it is likely that many will offer Internet
- in one direction only, and for most users who download rather than
- act as servers, that's fine.
-
- | Spending an extra $100 for the possibility that you might get better
- | speeds with a bad connection might be fine for some people if that's a
- | minor expense. With cable modems and AT&T's new technology that they
- | say will allow 10 times faster rates under normal copper lines, I
- | don't see it as a wise decision- but that's my income bracket, $100 is
- | a big deal to me :). Regular modems don't have much longer to live,
- | and ISDN looks to be dead before it can really achieve any sort of
- | popularity unless it's price plummets to close to regular phone lines
- | soon.
-
- Look at your long distance data call bill. A rule of thumb for
- capital expense is payback in ten months, so if you will save $100
- in ten months you should go faster. Yes, other theories use numbers
- other than ten, take your comments on that to an ecconomics group!
- --
- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- I will support laws and technology which limit what you are allowed
- to hear, if you will oppose laws and technology limiting what I am
- allowed to say.
-