[46406] in Cypherpunks
Re: Guerilla ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Monta)
Wed Jan 3 18:32:10 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 1996 14:44:37 EST."
<Pine.SUN.3.91.960103143229.11291B-100000@hertz.isr.umd.edu>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 14:07:38 -0800
From: Peter Monta <pmonta@qualcomm.com>
Thomas Edwards writes:
> [ microcellular nets ]
>
> But how can these things compete with @Home, which is promising 10 Mbps
> in and 128 kbps out of homes with cable modems?
I'm skeptical about cable modems---few cable providers have adequate
return paths, and everyone competes for the downlink bandwidth.
Broadcast is not the right architecture.
Any systems in actual operation? How many users do they support?
Cheers,
Peter Monta pmonta@qualcomm.com
Qualcomm, Inc./Globalstar
