High Speed Montana.
Feb 20 '00
I'm going to use an analogy to relay my opinion in this article, so bear with me.
Let's pretend you're a driver with a brand new car. We'll say a Ferrari. You live in say... Colorado. You really want to test your Ferrari out, but there are laws against that in Colorado. What do we do? We drive to Montana! It's only about 6 hours... well worth the rush to legally test out our new ride.
We get to Montana, and it's daylight, so there's no speed limit. We can go just as fast as our little car can carry us. Why is this? Why can we do this in Montana and not in Colorado? As we look around the answer hits us! The roads are basically the same. But there's no traffic! Walla. You have just seen the cable modem in real terms.
As the road becomes more clogged, and it will, expect the speed limit to go down. Not because people are mean, but because there is simply a limit on how fast you can go depending on how many other people are on the road. The same is true with Cable. As it becomes cheaper to use - and it will, expect it to become sluggish.
The only possible cure for this is if the cable company refuses to lower its rates, and perhaps even raises them. But then that screws the average bear all the same. But there's little choice here. Cable is too fast right now for its own good. Too many people want it, but are waiting for the price to drop. Soon, the price will drop - a matter of simple economics. Then you'll start to have the same problems that we have over the phone now.
While I do think cable is cool if it's worth the money to you right now, buyers beware, the future holds change in its eyes.
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Alastor
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