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- Subject: Re: What is after 28.8 ?
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 05:52:24 GMT
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- On Jan 31, 1996 04:14:36 in article <Re: What is after 28.8 ?>,
- 'jjames100@aol.com (JJames 100)' wrote:
-
- >ISDN is available now and is 5 times faster than 28.8
-
- Frankly, I'd rather see ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) come out
- front. It was invented for video-on-demand, you know...all that stuff that
- AT&T was going to do in the cable industry with sending movies real-time
- (on-demand) to your TV set?
- It works on standard voice phone lines and has a upload speed rate of
- 64-Kbps (like ISDN) but a download stream (to your PC) of 6-Mbps (that's
- 6000-Kbps). How would you like to have a 6,000,000 bps modem? I would.
-
- It does slow down the further you are from the switching office, but in
- most cities, people are within 4 miles of their office these days, and it
- still will do T1 speeds (1.5-Mbps) at that distance.
-
- I hope ADSL wins out in the long run. Frankly, I'd prefer a 1,000,000 bps
- connection on my current home phone line that I'm paying for that to have
- to pay the phone company, by the minute, plus a monthly fee, for an ISDN
- line.
-
- I imagine with a little work, that ADSL could be reworked to give more
- equal speeds in both directions but with a loss of total throughput.
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