If he is talking about lowering your AGGREGATE bandwidth available to
ALL customers down to 3.2mbps then that is something to think about..
If you are doing residential or something, no big deal.. But if you are
offering a replacement for T1 to business customers, those customers
will pretty much expect that amount of bandwidth to be available when
they look for it (hopefully they don't look for 100% of it very often :)
I don't think this would have much of an impact for the majority of
users but it must be factored into the network design...
Still, I am curious what %age of overhead the polling adds.
-----Original Message-----
From: karlnet-admin@WISPNotes.com [mailto:karlnet-admin@WISPNotes.com]
On Behalf Of Bill Fisher
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 9:45 AM
To: karlnet@WISPNotes.com
Subject: RE: [Karlnet] Karlnet for USB!
> We can get TurboCell to work on USB devices (not yet, but certainly
> doable). Here is the catch: USB protocol causes latency that will
> have an adverse affect on TurboCell. Our belief, is that instead of
> getting 5.5megs through
> the link, you will probably slow your ENTIRE TurboCell network
> down to about
> 3.2Megs.
>
> SO.....tell me what you think, and I will pass that back to the
> engineering
So my feeling is that this doesn't make one bit of differnce. That most
of us are limiting bandwidth to less than 512K anyway. If we aren't,
and trying to provide some kind of T1-equivelent service... then you
wouldn't be using a USB device anyway.
Maybe this will be an issue in 5 years, but it will be an issue for
anyone using USB. Not just TC users. I have an Alcatel USB for DSL
here at home. I sure enjoyed plugging & playing (this time).
Bill
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