Subj : Re: New Router
To   : ALAN ZISMAN
From : ROBERT FOWLER
Date : Sun Nov 21 2004 10:19 pm

-=> ALAN ZISMAN wrote to CHARLES SCAGLIONE <=-


 AZ>  I would totally agree that for 'normal' home Internet connection
 AZ> sharing and modest file and printer sharing, even 802.11b is enough
 AZ> bandwidth.

 AZ>  The people who like to sell stuff however are envisioning a future
 AZ> where home media sharing becomes widely available-- sending video from
 AZ> your computer to TVs throughout the house, for example. If that becomes
 AZ> common, it would require a lot of bandwidth!

 Interesting observation, and one I hadn't thought about.  It would
 certainly explain why Verizon would go to the trouble to develop a
 fiber-optic DSL network, as in Charles' area.  Streaming live media,
 even high definition, over the internet connection would be possible,
 but at what cost? ;-)

 It also raises speculation about what the computer would do with that
 data, that the conventional hardware being sold by the cable and
 satellite companies now cannot do.  Think the cable and satellite
 companies will get into the computer market, like the electronics
 people have the camera market?

 Regards,

 Robert Fowler




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