[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Paul Sture]

In article <kc6lj5$6ah$3 at online.de>,
 helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) 
 wrote:

> In article <nospam-D1E663.13595504012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
> <nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> Right; as I said, it is interesting for people with more than one device 
> on the LAN.  But I suspect that most people have just a PC connected to 
> the internet.
> 
> > > Most DSL connections are not more than 16 Mb/s, and most 
> > > people essentially connect one device to the internet. 
> > 
> > My cable company currently offers up to 100,000 Kbit/s down, 7,000 
> > Kbit/s up:
> > 
> > http://www.upc-cablecom.ch/en/b2c/internet.htm
> > 
> > and see the TV/internet/phone packages here:
> > 
> > http://www.upc-cablecom.ch/en/b2c/kombiangebote.htm
> > 
> > The "Top Deal" there is very little more than my current cost for a 
> > 25,000 Kbit/s internet and digital TV package.  In essence I would get a 
> > 4 times speed boost plus free telephone calls to land lines in 
> > Switzerland.
> 
> Yes, they exist, but they are not available in all areas.  The problem 
> with these package deals to land lines, at least in Germany, is that 
> calls to other countries are expensive.  Sometimes, a flat rate for 
> international calls can be purchased, but that is not interesting if it 
> doesn't include the countries one needs.

The next package up offers more TV and radio channels, plus "free calls 
to 34 countries", whatever that means.  At another 25 Francs a month 
that would have been useful at one time, but not now.
 
> > > So, the 
> > > bottleneck is the WAN connection; 100 Mb/s on the LAN is thus more than 
> > > enough.  For people with several devices on the LAN who also transfer 
> > > big files between them then, yes, Gb/s at home would make sense.
> > 
> > Back to NAS and media streaming, though many folks will use wireless 
> > networking instead.
> 
> Right.  Like in some third-world countries where people went from not 
> having a phone at all to having just a mobile, Gb ethernet might have 
> been leap-frogged by people who need more bandwidth, going directly to 
> wireless.

I am sure that is the case.

-- 
Paul Sture