On Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 04:09:49PM -0000, John R. Levine wrote:
The only thing I can figure is that the morons in question are going to quote, for legal purposes, "peak" or "burst" bandwidth, ...
Well, sure.
Let's have a show of hands: today, who gets 53Kbits/sec throughput on an X56 dialup? Who gets 1.544Mbit/sec throughput on a T1? Hmmn, looks pretty quiet out there.
Everyone's overcommitted, nobody can provide full pipe bandwidth on the connections they're selling now. This isn't news.
yes, but those people aren't usually selling a wide enough hose to make it useful for resale or server operation, which the ADSL stuff _will_. It's a different target audience, because of that, and I don't think they get it.
I suspect that the real market for xDSL will be as much telecommuting as web surfing, and so long as the telecommuters have a fast enough connection to the office which will probably not be very far away, that's all they care about.
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