[10820] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Two-way Internet service from Continental Cable?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason)
Thu Mar 10 22:41:25 1994
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 15:21:39 -0500
From: "Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason" <jmm@merit.edu>
To: merit.com-priv@merit.edu
There was an article a day or so ago in the NYT stating that
Continental Cable had announced it was beginning to offer Internet
connections over its coax cable lines in Cambridge, MA. I was struck
by the claim that the service would be two-way symmetric, that is both
incoming and outgoing traffic over the cable. In the past I'd only
heard of asymmetric cable connections: incoming over the coax,
outgoing over the twisted pair (phone line). What is Continental
doing differently that enables them to offer symmetric service?
jm2
