Re: Yahoo & Softbank to start ADSL service

[Tim Hurman <kano-tlug@example.com>]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jim Breen wrote:

> Tim wrote:
> >> You may want to look into ATM connections, providers in the uk are just
> >> starting to offer consumer ATM connections. Also, if you have a large
> >> amount of free bandwidth on your fibre, you can get upto 622Mbps, however
> >> that is a little extreme and very expensive. The standard rate for and ATM
> >> connection is 1.55Mbps IIRC.
>
> Uh. 155Mbps I think.....
Yeah, thats what I meant :)
However you can also get consumer rates in the < 5Mbps range I think. They
use passive splitters to share out the cell capacity.

Tim.