Hello Sunny,

On Mar 17 17:48 in a msg to Poe Lim, Sunny Leung of 3:712/407 wrote:

 PL> It was fun though, especially when JohnC spoke to the Banksia guys
 PL> about rack mount modems. :)

 SL> Tell us what happened! :-)

You had to be there to see the facial expression.

 PL> The possibility of 512K cable modems is very interesting, although how
 PL> much of that bandwidth is actually avaiable is moot. 

 SL> I read somewhere that the actual performance of cable modems wasn't
 SL> much better than that of 28.8k modems. Dunno whether that's true or
 SL> not. 

Considering the fact that most of the wait with WWW is with network
traffic, and not the modem itself, yes. But for pure modem transmission,
such as between user and BBS, or between nodes, it should scream.

Cheers,
Poe

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