Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Eli Marmor wrote: > Bad. > Very bad. > Contrary to Bezeq, who makes its big money out of frame-relay and > Sifranet, CATV doesn't dacrifice any source of income by giving high > upstream bandwidth. Yes, it does. The cable network is designed for DOWNSTREAM, not upstream. The upstream bandwidth or

Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks": > If you say so. Conventionally, though, it's kilobit per second. I am > not aware of any standard that mandates that, but MB is megabytes, Mb > is megabits, etc. E.g. > > http://ww

Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Eli Marmor
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > Eli Marmor wrote: > > > > Upstream! > > Upstream! > > You forgot to report the upstream bandwidth! > > Based upon ftp'ing a some files I had available: > (note that the connection I used is capable of 26 kbytes per second max) > > Small file: > > 619.56 kB 10

RE: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Amir Tal
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of Oleg Goldshmidt > Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 1:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks > > > Amir

Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Amir Tal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 50kbps = 50 kilobyte per second. ... Ok ? :) If you say so. Conventionally, though, it's kilobit per second. I am not aware of any standard that mandates that, but MB is megabytes, Mb is megabits, etc. E.g. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MB.html -- Ol

RE: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Amir Tal
> -Original Message- > From: Sagi Bashari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 2:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Eli Marmor' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks > > > From: "A

RE: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Amir Tal
> -Original Message- > From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 1:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: 'Sagi Bashari'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Eli Marmor'; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cable m

RE: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Amir Tal
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of Oleg Goldshmidt > Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 1:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Eli Marmor'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cable modem

Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Are you sure you are not mixing units here? Geoff seems to quote > everything in bytes (and I assume kB stands for kilobyte, as usual). > 11 kB/s id _more_ than 50kb/s if kb stands for kilobits. I have to. By the time I actually get the data the only unit of throughput i

Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Amir Tal wrote: > of us have more bandwidth then > What AZTV are selling now ;) > So it is true. Trust me, I have a 4 pc's LAN running on that connection > for a long time, so I know what it can\cant do. During the experiment, it would not make sense to limit your bandwitdh. Since there were onl

Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Sagi Bashari
From: "Amir Tal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't think that it is. AZTV offer (easy+) include 96kbps > > upstream (12kB/s > > max) > > Well, I am using cables for 6 months (I am from the experiment) and some > of us have more bandwidth then > What AZTV are selling now ;) > So it is true. Trust m

Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Amir Tal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 619.56 kB 10.96 kB/s > > That is WAY to slow man...i get more then 50kb upstream in similar > locations. Are you sure you are not mixing units here? Geoff seems to quote everything in bytes (and I assume kB stands for kilobyte, as usual). 11 kB/s id _

RE: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Amir Tal
> -Original Message- > From: Sagi Bashari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 2:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Eli Marmor' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks > > > From: "

Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Sagi Bashari
From: "Amir Tal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Based upon ftp'ing a some files I had available: > > (note that the connection I used is capable of 26 kbytes per > > second max) > > > > Small file: > > > > 619.56 kB 10.96 kB/s > > That is WAY to slow man...i get more then 50kb upstream in similar > loc

Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
> I wrote: > > 619.56 kB 10.96 kB/s Amir Tal wrote: > That is WAY to slow man...i get more then 50kb upstream in similar > locations. > What modem to you have ? > The IBM one ? No I have the RCA (Thompson) modem. Artutzi Zahav claimed 64k bits per second max. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mende

RE: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Amir Tal
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Geoffrey > S. Mendelson > Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 12:36 PM > To: Eli Marmor > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks > > > El

Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Eli Marmor wrote: > > Upstream! > Upstream! > You forgot to report the upstream bandwidth! Based upon ftp'ing a some files I had available: (note that the connection I used is capable of 26 kbytes per second max) Small file: 619.56 kB 10.96 kB/s Large file performance was about the same.

Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks

2002-04-07 Thread Eli Marmor
Upstream! Upstream! You forgot to report the upstream bandwidth! ;-) -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314