[8683] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re : One way Internet?..no its "Asymetric"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ERIK@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu)
Tue Nov 30 15:50:59 1993
From: ERIK@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: 30 Nov 93 15:50:35 EST
smith@sfu.ca (Richard Smith) writes:
> No doubt lurkers are a kind of Internet Couch Potato, but the
> *possibility* of posting is always there.
I think the *possibility* to post is still there...but you don't
need a full t-1 connection to post replies to usenet. A low-speed
back-channel is plenty good for 'human' access. Even dial-up 9600
baud modems moves almost 1k per second. for posting and interactive
access to MUDs, library card catalogs and things like that.
Of course, to run a gopher server or an anonymous FTP site, you
would want a lot more information flowing across a backchannel.
(since you would be providing a service). Presumably, you would pay
more for high-speed back-channel service from your service providor.
Personally that seems fair, because you will be using more
resources.
I'm not sure which system would be better. With high-bandwith
access to/from your house, people will invent uses for the speed.
(setting up gophers, "calling" home to check their voicemail...etc)
looking at the statistics from our campus 56kb line shows almost
twice as much data coming into campus as going out.
-erik
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Erik Seielstad | Systems Programmer/Analyst
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