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From: boomer@athena.mit.edu (Don Alvarez)
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Subject: Re: experience using commercial cable TV as a MAN.
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Date: 10 Oct 89 13:03:55 GMT
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In article <164@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM
(Steve Elias) writes: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>>[anybody every run ethernet over local cable-tv through a city?]
>[yes, Springfield, mass and St. Paul, Minnesota have]
>
>	naturally, there are some gotchas with this technology.  the local
>	cable system has to be fairly high quality stuff.  some cable 
>	companies are fairly lax about attenuations and other nifty RF stuff;
>	such conditions would cause many physical layer 802.4 errors.
>
how about the problem of having every character you type sent
ito the home of every phreak and hacker in a 100 square mile area?

-don
boomer@athena.Princeton.edu
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