Re: [aclug-L] ISPs?

[John Reinke <ufotofu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe that all of Wichita would be sharing one *outgoing* T1, but yes,
it doesn't sound like it will be nearly as fast as they want you to
believe. Hype is everything. I'm sure they plan an NT bottleneck on top of
everything else, too. The only time I went to their web site, I got a few
Frontpage errors...

john

>On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Bob Deep wrote:
>
>> Netcom but limited to 33.6
>>
>> I'm awaiting Cablevision's starting their services.. For what?  $25 a
>> month?
>
>Cablevision will be charging, I believe, $40/month.  But keep in mind...
>they will be limiting bandwidth to 128k per person...  Not to mention the
>fact that the entire city of Wichita will be fed by a single T1
>(1.54mbits).  Things will be DOG SSSSLLLLOOOOWWWW.  No more than 12 people
>in the entire city will be able to get 128k throughput simultaneously.  If
>you have 100 doing a file transfer at the same time, each person gets only
>15.4kbps (barely faster than a 14.4 modem).
>
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