Just to add something here. I've been hearing the story of "only in Israel
we get such low speed where the rest of the world has great high speed
internet" for years now. First it was with the 28s, then 33, then 56s
So I think this quote from Jim Seymour (PC magazine), even though it was
written almost two years ago, is apt:
"
First, V.90 is not magic, and those legendary 56K connections are as
elusive as ever. (Actually, of course, they're limited to 53 Kbps on the
receiving side, thanks to an irrelevant government regulation limiting 56K
devices to 53 Kbps. Irrelevant? Sure: Just as I've never seen a 33.6-Kbps
connection outside a closed-loop test in a lab, I've never seen a 56-Kbps
connection, nor even a 53-Kbps link, away from the test bench. Welcome to
the real world.)
My experience with 56K modems--both x2 (3Com/U.S. Robotics) and K56flex
(Rockwell and the rest of the modem universe)--is that if you get into
the mid-30s Kbps range, you're doing pretty well. Get into the low-40s
Kbps range and you're having a Good Modem Day indeed.
"
..not only in Israel
and some participants in this thread might like to read a bit what Dvorak
has to say about lots of small ISPs stateside.
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, guy keren wrote:
>
> for a slight comparison - in 1996, a fiber-optic T1 link to the states
> cost about 1,000,000$ per year. a satellite link cost around 750,000$.
> at those days you could fit approximately 200 concurrent users on such a
> link to give them their full bandwidth (of an 28.8kbps modem).
> these days, you can buy such links at a price of (approximately) 100,000$
> or 200,000$ a year (i might be wrong by a factorof 2, btw). so the price
> was reduced by a factor of 5 or 10. at the same time, the bandwidth users
> take has grown significantly - many business users using frame relay and
> sifranet links. regular modems download at approx. 40kbps (assuming a
> 57.6kbpsmodem manages to make a connection on at that speed due to
> various line condition problems). many users use ISDN (64kbps). some use
> dual isdn (128kbps), and a few use ADSL and cable modems. so you can't put
> 200 users on a T1 link now - you can put much less then that (probably 100
> or less, to get a satisfactory speed).
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