At 10:59 PM 2/9/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Cable Modems are still considered a "New Idea" by corporate standards. (The
>same goes for ADSL.) ISDN has been the choice for most home users since the
>overall and initial cost are much less than the above.
Excuse me ?
It costs more to have ISDN than a cable modem last time I checked .
ADSL will die , too high in the equipment costs .
You can also push
>the ISDN modems/routers up to 230K UP/DOWNLOAD without any problems..this
>does depend on the site though.
You can push a cable modem over 2-3Mbps without any problems regularly .
I've been running my old BitsurferPRO with
>a TurboPort 920 card (16750UART CoProcessed Serial Card) at 230K for the
>past 2 years without any problems..and this is also taking into
>consideration that I run an NT Proxy Server at home for three different
>workstations (all running DHCP with full access to the internet and email).
>Cable modems can be setup to do this as well, but with some
>difficulty...Home ADSL uses a static IP and does not allow Proxy Servers
>since it communicates with ISP via IP Translation through the routers.
>
>Pro's/Cons:
>
>Cable Modems - Fast, but highly susceptible to "slowdowns" due to increased
>client usage over smaller backbone.
This really depends on the backbone .
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