[46434] in Cypherpunks
Re: Guerilla ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Jan 3 23:02:20 1996
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:44:26 -0800
To: Peter Monta <pmonta@qualcomm.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
At 14:07 1/3/96 -0800, Peter Monta wrote:
>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.
I would be skeptical too, but the cable modems I reviewed in a marketing
research focus group were from HP. My view of HP's reputation is that when
they claim their equipment does something, it does. Does anyone want to
offer counter examples?
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