Re: "Is TDM going the way of dial-up?"

Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> wrote:

And, if you are using a 1988 TCP stack on a 4.3 system, you are not likely to ever efficiently utilize a higher speed link

What higher speed link? I'm very happy with 384 kbps symmetric, using SDSL as ARPANET replacement. I have designed and built my own SDSL to EIA-530 CSU/DSU so I can use a Cisco 2500 router instead of that nasty new-fangled Netopia which has (oh horror!) RJ45 Ethernet instead of proper AUI. Oh, did I forget to mention that my Ethernet is coaxial? To me all that UTP stuff isn't true Ethernet.

and will not behave well on any link. TCP has come a long way in the past 12 years. (Of course, I can't guess what "mostly unchanged" means.)

Backward compatibility rules! MS