Trying ADSL

Subject: Trying ADSL
Andy Oram (andyo@ora.com)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:42:43 -0400 (EDT)

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:42:43 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199804151542.LAA29428@ruby.ora.com>
From: Andy Oram <andyo@ora.com>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Trying ADSL

I recommend that members of this list read the following article on
ADSL from an actual user (even though the article is long):

     http://www.ehsco.com/opinion/19980413.html

I found two main points in the article:

1. Service is unreliable and there are often incompatibilities between
the end-user equipment and vendor equipment. A lot of these problems,
it seems to me, should be attributed to barriers put up by local
telephone companies.

2. The end-user has good bandwidth for reception with ADSL, but most
servers at the other end of the connection don't have adequate
bandwidth to make it worth getting ADSL. This problem will correct
itself over time as the critical mass of high-bandwidth users grows
and servers upgrade in response.

Andy

Andy Oram
<andyo@ora.com>

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