Re: [aclug-L] ISPs?

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unless I'm unaware of something, T1's are bidirectional... If they have an
outgoing T1, what sort of incoming connection would they have?  Perhaps a
satelite feed of somesort?


On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, John Reinke wrote:

> 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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