In a message dated: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:19:22 EST
"Kenneth E. Lussier" said:
>At 04:40 PM 3/23/00 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
>>Also, 100Mbit cards won't help you much since the cable modems are usually
>>throttled down to 1.5 downstream and 512k upstream :)
>>--
>
>Actually, it's 1.5M down and 384K up. Of course, these numbers are IDEAL
>bandwidth which you will probably never see. A drawback to the 100Mbps is
>that the ethernet side of a cable modem is 10Mbps. At least that is what
>the LanCity modem is. I don't know about other brands.
>FYI,
Well, the whole downstream/upstream thing is a matter of perspective I guess :)
The 384K is a matter of provider. Some are 384, otheres are 512, some are 256.
My cable provider has both set to 0 :)
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Seeya,
Paul
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