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- From: payter@niccolo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Payter Versteegen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.isdn
- Subject: Re: Cable Modem connection!
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 17:29:06 GMT
- Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
- Message-ID: <4ej052$mi3@post.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- amor@hntp2.hinet.net wrote:
- >Hi! I'd like to ask is there anybody on this newsgroup had been actually
- >connected to cable modem service? What's its rate and speed? How do you feel
- >about the connection? I'm very interested at this topic.
- >
- >
- >Mac Chen
- >
- For us, 1.25Mb/sec dedicated (not shared). As an engineer trying
- to get it to work, I have mixed feelings. When the lines are good, the
- connection simply hauls-ass; the real Internet then becomes the bottleneck
- (as to be expected). When it's not, the annoying bad-packet symptoms
- can quickly degrade to no-service.
-
- Payter Versteegen.
- payter@niccolo.gsfc.nasa.gov
-
- =;)
-