Internet II is coming...

Wed Oct 9 21:27:29 UTC 1996

On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Fletcher E  Kittredge wrote:

> 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?

It might be for video conferencing but not for ftp, http, smtp, nntp and
the various other normal protocols. But then, I don't do video
conferencing on the net. The closest I get to that is running some
RealAudio stuff occasionally and it works just fine.

Michael Dillon                   -               ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael at memra.com