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From: dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: 19200bps
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Date: 11 May 91 01:29:41 GMT
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In <21448@cbmvax.commodore.com> drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) writes:

>optical doesn't buy you diddlysquat for 2B+D service.  2B+D only needs 192Kbits

I know (thanks for pointing it out, though), but once I have the line, I can
run multiple "lines", a WAN, and video through a single connection.  The
phone companies aren't always the most "public-spirited" of companies, but
my service, at least (I know others are different; I've had some of them)
has been reliable, and cost-effective.  Beats the heck out of the local
cable company.

I would be willing to buy the higher bandwidth, if the services were
available.  For one, since I'm a "mail" user, not currently associated
with a university, or government lab, I can't get effective "ftp" access
to the software repositories on the net.  With a WAN, and my "very own"
address, I could.

I don't know if you've seen it, but the folks at Bell Labs (it's not
here, so I can give proper credit) prepared a paper describing a new
internal OS, called "Plan 9".  They described home access at 1.54
Megabits to office servers.  Nice, huh?

Dan Taylor