DH> On Jul 26 19:15 96, Con Aidonidis of 3:712/941 wrote:



CA>> i probably do have a crap line, but for the cable modems, as the name 

CA>> refers to "cable", if you know the basics about fibre
optics you will 

CA>> understand that you will get full speed every time



 DH> When the interface is 10 Mb/sec, the cable uplink capacity is 30 Mb/sec, 

 DH> and

 DH> you're sharing that cable segment with 200 other users?



My local ISP has fibre optics to his door and 90 lines out with 28800 modems

on all of them.



I once downloaded an 18k that took 20 minutes to finish. And the

V34man.txt file (355064bytes) took 2.5 hours.



Yes, I'm impressed with the speed of fibre optics as well



 DH> Uh - yeah.  sure.  You got any interest in a good toll bridge?   Just 

 DH> paid out,

 DH> freshly painted, good access from metropolitan Sydney, second investment 

 DH> in a

 DH> paralell tunnel available.  Good deal...



David,

Please take this to the Aust_Trading echo....So that I can make you an

offer!!!





Russell



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