On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 07:01:23PM +0300, guy keren wrote:
> as far as i understood, cable connection in general uses shared media
> (both upstream and downstream). what's more, their normal upstream
> connection is apprently VERY limited in its capacity, as cable T.V. was
> originaly meant for one-way communicatinos only.
True. Upstream is a multiple-access channel and a slow one.
Downstream is where the band (tens of megabits per sec per TV
channel. Of course a few 1000's of users will share such a channel).
> nonstop claims they will gurantee at least 05.Mbps for the downstream
I wouldn't count on that :)
> that only during the experimentation. wait till they start giving a real
> service for a mass of users.
When they finally do that [This will happen when the Bezeq Law will
be changed and that will happen when the government finally got
Bezeq sold for a good price], they will let each user choose his
ISP. Your data will be tunneled to that ISP and from there - to the
Internet.
Oh, by the way, when they finally offer this as a commercial service
it'll almost certainly be handled by Tevel Telecomm (that's part of
the cable companies merge).
--
Nimrod.
http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27
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