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True, My cable modem connects via a 10-Mbit Ethernet NIC -- The cable
company's ISP transmits at less than the full 10-Mbit capacity of the NIC--
so that is where a bottleneck might occur, if any. From what I've been able
to determine, the speed appears to be up to about 40 times faster than my
56K modem-- this is based on seriously reduced download times for large files.
I've been using Cable/Ethernet with Quote.com's Q-Feed/Q-Charts for a couple
of months and find it super-fast and much better than the BMI broadcast feed
that I had before. But I'm not obsessed with receiving every tick-- only
with having adequate data that allows me to trade and make money. For this
purpose, it is more than sufficient-- but I can't give any technical specs
as to how it compares to other methods of receiving data.
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At 10:39 AM 5/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Wouldn't you be connecting your external cable modem to an Ethernet NIC on
>the PC?
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>At 05:56 PM 5/22/99 +0100, Gerrit Jacobsen wrote:
>>Jim,
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>> > 1. Will cable modems represent an improvement and elimate the need for
>> > me to get a high speed port?
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>>Depends, if this an external modem it will make your need for
>>high speed port even more urgent since the data has to get somehow
>>into your computer. If it is an internal modem you don't need any
>>port at all.
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