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ligh...@netvision.net.il wrote:


>In Article<0kIpxkw8...@gonzo.wolfenet.com>, 
><r...@gonzo.wolfenet.com> writes:
>> 
>> Welcome to this century.  Cable modems can send and recieve. I am
>> currently trying to get into the beta test for my area, and the
>> current stats are:
>> 
>> Send: approx 500Kb/sec  (ie: about 4 times faster than 128Kb/sec ISDN)
>> Receive: approx 4 Mb/sec (ie: about 3 times faster than a T1 !!)
>> 
>> Can you say FAST??  This is the first generation (in my area at least)
>> and the next generation is suppossed to hit:
>> 
>> Send: 1 Mb/sec
>> Recieve: 10 Mb/sec
>> 
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> Well, the best thing about cables is the virtually unlimited range of 
>frequencies, or virtually unlimited bandwidth (in the sense that you can 
>have the amount of bandwidth you talk about for EVERYBODY w/o problems). 
>Can you think fast ethernet for all? that right (100Mb/s). Can you say 
>FDDI? oh yeh. How about 622Mb/s to your house? how does that sound? nice, 
>eh?

> Should be fun :-)

> Barak
By the way you can also get 10MBits  out of your regular copper wire
phone line. Of course the phone company will have to replace some of
their switchs or buy some new ones. But here are  the facts. The phone
company still has a big network and with their new ADSL lines they can
get up to 10MB out of their existing copper wire phone lines. Now the
cable people have to upgrade their network to allow internet access
and I imagine we will see speeds of 500k and higher from either cable
or phone within 2 years. By that time I hope the software will be able
to take advantage of this technology.

Also can you imagine the cost of the ISP upgrading to cater for 10MB
Wow!!! looks like we gotta wait a while.

Barry.