Re: Cable Modem speed (Was Re: [aclug-L] ISPs?)

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regardless of the physical connection types, etc, I haven't heard ANYTHING
to say they WON'T be throttling bandwidth to a 128k maximum.  Has anyone
heard news to the contrary of this?


On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Brian J. Chapman wrote:

> At 3/17/99 10:51 AM , Todd_Lundstedt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > PCI cablemodem.  Then, you get the full 27-40Mbps shared speed.)  And, as
> 
> uh oh...that sounds proprietary unless it can appear to Linux as an NE2000 
> clone or something(???) :-S
> 
> if thats true about the cable modems then thats awesome! unless i'm missing 
> somthing. (all this bandwidth throttling and bottleneck roomers had be 
> depressed about MMC.)
>  
> isn't the IAP in KC one of the faster IAPs? i mean its not on AT&T's backbone 
> is it?  (i hate AT&T's infrastructure) ;-)
> 
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