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Re: Internet II is coming...

  • From: Fletcher E Kittredge
  • Date: Wed Oct 09 17:30:00 1996 
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:13:03 -0700 (PDT)  Michael Dillon wrote:
> My ISP has a 10Mbps fibre ATM circuit to BCNet in Vancouver that was
> installed in Aplril 1995. From there it connects to CA*Net which has a T3
> into MCI Seattle as well as links to the East where more T3's head south
> to MCI. The T3's were T1's until Sept 1995 at which point there was a
> small improvement in speed at times.

So a 10Mbps fiber ATM circuit translates, after the cell tax and
packet stredding, to 6Mbps on a real link.  Is this not slow enough to
be a bottleneck?

regards,
fletcher
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