Re: Broadband Router/Firewall

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Jim Breen wrote:

> ["Scott M. Stone" (Re: Broadband Router/Firewall) writes:]
> >> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, roylo wrote:
> >> > don't worry, you will never excess 10Mbps on a dsl connection.
> >> > {Just to give you an ideal; T2 is only 6312 kbps = 6.312 Mbps}
> >> > {And I have not seem any ISP that offer more than 5Mbps on dsl connections}
> >> 
> >> T2?  a European T2/E2 is only 2 megabits/sec, and I was led to believe
> >> that they only exist in Europe.  
> 
> Ahem. E1 is 2.048Mbps. E2 is 8.448 Mbps. DS1 (T1) is 1.544Mbps, DS2 (T2)
> is 6.312 Mbps. It is all in the ITU/CCITT G.7xx standards. The "E"
> series are are is used virtually everywhere except the US, Canada and Japan.

yeah I got some wires crossed in my brain on that original post, sorry
about that.  

> the same was the case in the US. You should have spent more time in the
> innards of a major CO, Scott.   8-)}

yeah, I probably should :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
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