On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > Dov Zamir wrote: > >>Both of the DSL modems I've had, as well as both cable modems I've owned, > >>and every DSL modem I've installed for other people have all had 100meg > >>ports...either in a 4-5 port switch, or in the port that connected right > >>to the PC/router/firewall. > >> > >>Interesting. > >> > >>As I noted, a few seconds ago, I'm surprised that the manufacturers are > >>even bothering...I can't imagine that 10meg chipsets are that plentiful, > >>anymore. > >> > >>-- > > > > 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. vdsl signaling speeds go out to about 52Mb/s yahoo broadband (softbank) sells this in japan as 23Mb/s down 6 up service. some adsl modems can train as high as 8Mb/ down for short distances. most adsl providers in the US have a least 1.5Mb/s down 768k up available as part of their service offerings. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - He who laughs last thinks slowest. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
