On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 04:19, Rick Stevens wrote: > Dov Zamir wrote: > > I work for a networking integrator, selling thousands of xDSL modems. > > There are basically two levels of modems. Those produced by Cisco and > > such have 10/100 Mbps interfaces and cost hundereds of dollars. > > > > Those produced in the far east and in Europe, such as Alcatel and > > Telyndos have 10Mbps interfaces and cost tens of dollars. > > > > If you don't need all the fancy features (and most of us don't) that the > > expensive modems can do, the cheaper ones actually outperform the more > > expensive ones. > > And even 10Mbps is silly unless you have a DS3 connection or better. > A T1 is only 1.544Mbps, a DS3 is 51Mbps. I've never heard of a DSL or > broadband connection coming anywhere near either. In theory Cable carriers local loops carry ~20Mbs or so, but that is to be shared by all, so they cap you at the lower amounts so that everybody gets something. In Raleigh where I live, Timer Warner does a decent job of not oversubscribing the local loops (surprising since I live near the NC State campus) and I almost always got 3.5Mbps downstream. Now if I could only get them to give me better than 40K/sec upstream, life would be perfect. -- Chris Kloiber
