On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Fletcher E Kittredge wrote:
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Michael Dillon wrote:
My ISP has a 10Mbps fibre ATM circuit to BCNet in Vancouver that was installed in Aplril 1995. From there it connects to CA*Net which has a T3 into MCI Seattle as well as links to the East where more T3's head south to MCI. The T3's were T1's until Sept 1995 at which point there was a small improvement in speed at times.
So a 10Mbps fiber ATM circuit translates, after the cell tax and packet stredding, to 6Mbps on a real link. Is this not slow enough to be a bottleneck?
It might be for video conferencing but not for ftp, http, smtp, nntp and the various other normal protocols. But then, I don't do video conferencing on the net. The closest I get to that is running some RealAudio stuff occasionally and it works just fine. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com