Re: (PM) New PM user Q. What do you think of the PM? (fwd)
Paul Yoes (hwtech@netpipeline.net)
Mon, 01 Feb 1999 08:32:21 -0800
MegaZone wrote:
>
> Once upon a time Tom Muchmore shaped the electrons to say...
> >SWB recently announced ADSL for $39.00 a month and ADSL with full internet
> >access for $49.00 a month. Course it has to go through FCC etc. I think but
> >they hope to offer it this quarter in some of the larger cities in their
> >area. Plans for over 200 COs in 1999 if I remember correctly.
> >Could cause some interesting situations for many of us. Hard to offer that
> >kind of bandwidth for $10.00 a month.
>
> Of course, it is oversold to hell and back. Just like GTE's ADSL/frame
> stuff. I mean, *seriously*, orders-of-magnitude, oversold. Do you think
> that for every 28 ADSL users they have a T3? It is probably more like
> 2800 ADSL users hauled over a T3. Yes, the last mile is fast. But that's
> like having an expressway into your garage - fed by a dirt trail. If
> they're smart they'll be using caching at the head end to reduce some of
> that. The first people to sign on will be blown away, but if they actually
> manage to sell a lot - things will slow way down.
>
> -MZ
So far my ADSL customers have been able to get full speed (GTE/SoCal)
out of their ADSL connections up to 768K. The 1.5 Mbps guys are seeing
around 1.2 Mbps. I'm waiting to see it slow down dramatically as the
number of customers increases. I have noticed another problem, the more
ADSL customers that sign up off this one CO, the more problems my v.90
customers have off that same CO. I can't even convince GTE that there's
a problem, let alone get them to solve it. Calls off that CO now start
at 49,333 and end 3-5 minutes later at 2400-4800 baud. Gotta love the
Great Telephone Experiment.
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