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 | | From: | Rick Merrill | | Subject: | Re: future of high-speed cable modems? | | Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:06:35 -0500 |
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 | Midnight Java Junkie wrote:
> Dear Colleagues:
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> I am multi-posting this in the hopes that I dont piss too many people off.
> I understand that you should only post to dissimilar groups when the subject
> matter affects a wide range of industries. I think this qualifies.
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> Back in 1996 I was one of the first guinea pigs to test out "Road Runner",
> which was simply what was called high-speed cable modem service in upstate
> new york. Your choices were DSL and Cablevision, Adelphia Cable, or what
> have you.
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> My neighbor works for verizon here on Long Island, NY and he tells me that
> they are running fiber from the pole to people's homes directly and then
> offering this service as your typical voice/data/movies on demand, etc. All
> of which I think are great things.
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> My cable modem here at home is good for something like 1.5mb per second and,
> well, I have not measured up speeds but its pretty good whatever it is (its
> late and I really dont want to go testing, but that is not the purpose of my
> post here).
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> I am hearing of these next generation cable modems and am reading speeds of
> things like 80 mb download speeds and apparently some testing is going on in
> Signapore, etc., where they offer speeds as high as 100mb per second.
We have that in New England. It is called "fiber to the pole" It is
actually coax to the house.
> What is the word on the grapevine. I understand that any new technologies
> of this sort will be more expensive than what is available now and I also
> know that a fulll T3 with a range of static IP addresses opened up to speeds
> of like 45mb per second is bookoo expensive (like 8 grand a month or so -
> regardless, its not so much about price).
A T1 line is "beaucoup" expensive ::= $900.
Cable to the pole will cost you in the neighborhood of $50/mo.
> So whats the industry chatter all about in terms of this next genertation of
> pure fibre runs right to people's homes. In the next five years, what can
> we realistically expect. For me personally, paying even 200 bucks a month
Get out!-)
> for a 100mb download speed would be well worth the effort and, if small
> businesses will be able to get such service, well, you can see what would
> happen to the rest of the industry. Back in '98 we were getting something
> like 400 bucks a pop to just show up and hook up people to cablevision.
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> Any news out there, reliable articles posted and realistic expectations of
> when this will be made possible on a broader range, or are people just
> talking rumors?
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> Thanks to all for your time.
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> Regards,
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> Midnight JJ
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