t1 versus cabel/modem

[Joseph C. Lininger]

T1 line is signifficantly more expensive. They're designed for business. A
T1 has a throughput of 1.5 MBPS. This is a garenteed rate, and it is
always available. With cable, you share your bandwidth with everyone on
the same line as you.

-- 
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, erik burggraaf wrote:

> Hi, Call up your cable company, and ask what their network throughput is.
> This is a number between 256 Kbits per sec, and 2 m bits per second.  It
> sounds like yours is somewhere between 1.3 and 2 megabits per second.  Then,
> Hunt down a t1 provider.  I suspect the network throughput on a t1 would be
> between 1 and 3 megabits persec, but will cost significantly more than
> cable.
> You guys can correct me if I go wrong here.  The best we have here so far is
> adsl with a 3.5 meg network throughput.  Maybe Pricy, though, fwew.
> Erik
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: monte single <mrsingle at shaw.ca>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 5:51 PM
> Subject: t1 versus cabel/modem
>
>
> > How does the download rate of  t1 compare to cabel modem. On my cable
> modem connection I think I
> > depends a lot on where I am downloading from. Sometimes I may only get
> twenty or thirty kbs/s. When I
> > downloaded redhat 8.0 from limestone.oregon.edu----i think that was it, it
> was more like 360 kbs/s.
> >
> > Gregory Nowak wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks to everyone for their reply.
> > >
> > > Thanks to Aaron for recommending the planetmirror site, and for the
> backup on that recommendation.
> > >
> > > I'm downloading the iso from there right now as I write this.
> > >
> > > Having t1 is indeed very nice (smile).
> > > Regards,
> > > Greg
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:32:01AM -0500, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > Oh, they're there, all right. On most of the slackware mirrors, but
> the
> > > > servers are so loaded down you're gonna have a fun time getting them.
> Hope
> > > > you got a broadband connection, because if you're stuck with 56K (like
> I
> > > > am) you probably don't have a chance for another month or so when all
> these
> > > > broadband users get done grabbing there isos. The best URL seems to be
> the
> > > > one on planetmirror which was given here earlier, but as I said...
> good
> > > > luck getting ahold of it. Of course, if you want to, you can make your
> own
> > > > iso image (instructions are found in isolinux/README.txt on slackware
> 9.0
> > > > mirror sites).
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Jacob
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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