----- Original Message ----- From: "vinton g. cerf" <vinton.g.cerf@wcom.com> To: "Bill Cunningham" <billcu@citynet.net> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 10:25 PM Subject: Re: bandwidth > no it is bits per second. The analog rate of these circuits is on the order of 3000-4000 baud (hertz). One gets a number of bits per hertz using heavy coding and sometimes compression. > > you surely must have meant something other than 100-200 bps (bits per second) in your second paragraph :-) > maybe 100-200Kb/s? DSL produces anywhere from 128 kbps to 6 Mb/s (typically asymmetric), and VDSL is potentially capable of 56 Mb/s over sufficiently short distances > > vint cerf > Yes Vinton your're right I meant kbps. oops. Verizon services the area I live in and 100-200 kbps must be DSL service.