Re: Defeating Firewalls: Sneaking Into Office Computers From Home

In article <cLqdnTJjYNt1Q2PfRVn-qA@comcast.com>,
Charles Newman <charlesnewman1@comcast.do.not.spam.me.net> wrote:

:Comcast wants
:to be a cheaper alternative for business internet, than
:T-1 service. I know that when it does launch, the
:high-end business version of Comcast will have
:8 megabits download, and 1.5 megabits upload.
: A T-1 would never reach 8 megabits, and
:would likely cost a lot more than the Comcast
:business-level internet that is about to be
:introduced. And that will include a static IP
:and will allow servers.

That kind of business cable is available here [Winnipeg Canada]
for about 1/8th of the price of a T1 -- less than $US100 compared to
about $US1000 for T1. 10 megabit burstable fibre has been available for
years here for about $US250. And yet there are still quite a few
T1 providers.

People around here don't buy T1's for -speed-. Reasons why they
do buy T1 include:

- T1 provides symmetric bandwidth (SDSL is not very common here)

- T1 is point to point and thus does not have the security issues
that one has when one is connected to the Internet

- T1 are available -most- places that phone land-lines reach --
the required infrastructure having existed for long enough for
very good saturation.

- T1 do not degrade with congestion from other users on your block
(a significant problem with cable!)

- T1 have fixed latency and bandwidth, not variable as cable has

- T1 is synchronous and thus suitable for multimedia applications
that degrade when frames are received out of order

- T1 has no bandwidth caps, content filters, forced http proxying,

-- 
  The rule of thumb for speed is:
  1. If it doesn't work then speed doesn't matter.  -- Christian Bau