From: Justin Mason (jm at domain jmason.org)
Date: Thu 23 Sep 1999 - 16:27:03 IST
Simson Garfinkel, in Salon, covers high-speed access:
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/09/23/cable_dsl/print.html
MediaOne has done a spectacular job in the Boston area of connecting its cable
modem subscribers with the rest of the global network. Packets take 12
milliseconds (20 hops) to make the round-trip from my desk to the Exodus hub in
Pennsauken, N.J. (For comparison, a particle of light would take just 3.2
milliseconds to make the round-trip, implying that MediaOne has installed some
awesomely fast routers between Cambridge and the Garden State.) I am 80
milliseconds away from Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. I can download Netscape
Communicator 4.5 -- which resides on a server in San Jose -- in less than 4
minutes.
--j.
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