Internet II is coming...

Wed Oct 9 21:20:17 UTC 1996

On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:13:03 -0700 (PDT)  Michael Dillon wrote:
> My ISP has a 10Mbps fibre ATM circuit to BCNet in Vancouver that was
> installed in Aplril 1995. From there it connects to CA*Net which has a T3
> into MCI Seattle as well as links to the East where more T3's head south
> to MCI. The T3's were T1's until Sept 1995 at which point there was a
> small improvement in speed at times.

So a 10Mbps fiber ATM circuit translates, after the cell tax and
packet stredding, to 6Mbps on a real link.  Is this not slow enough to
be a bottleneck?

regards,
fletcher