On Jul 29 18:55 96, Russell Brooks of 3:640/305.55 wrote:

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

RB> My local ISP has fibre optics to his door and 90 lines out with 28800 
RB> modems on all of them.

No doubt - but he's bought a pack that does that.  The hopoloi get the
Austel / Optus / Telstra cable distribution scheme, which is optimized for
pay TV.

RB> I once downloaded an 18k that took 20 minutes to finish. And the
RB> V34man.txt file (355064bytes) took 2.5 hours.

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

That disaster was probably hatched in the USA, in the flapping routers of MCI.

Regards,
Dave Hatch.

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