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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Internet II is coming...
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Fletcher E Kittredge wrote: > 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? It might be for video conferencing but not for ftp, http, smtp, nntp and the various other normal protocols. But then, I don't do video conferencing on the net. The closest I get to that is running some RealAudio stuff occasionally and it works just fine. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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