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Pronounced "skuzzy," this is a standard data pathway used mostly for hard drives and CD-ROM drives; but it was also a common interface for scanners and even printers at one point. It is the fastest (and the most flexible) method of interfacing with hard drives. It comes in numerous varieties, and is mainly used in servers and high-end workstations. SCSI drives are much more expensive than IDE drives, but SCSI drives can
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Small Computer Systems Interface - In on Fri, 27 Jun 2003 03:33:38 GMT,Graham Freeman wrote:In ba.internet tock@sbcglobal.net wrote: I have SBC . . . get good connections (10mb/sec), never get kicked off. Only two complaints: (1) they don't carry all the good .mp3 newsgroups, and (2) trying to deal with any of their people is an adventure in patience. If you get SBC, you'll find out what I mean. Keep away from their people and you'll be happy. Dunno anything about AT&T, though.I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money that you don't actually havea 10Mb/s connection to the Internet. You have a 10Mb/s connection toyour bridge, switch or hub, which ends up getting you a 1.5Mb/s (or slower)connection to the Internet.This would apply to any provider, not just SBC.SBC and other providers do in fact sell fatter ADSL Internet pipes; e.g.,Sonic.net sells as much as 6Mbps (depending on sync rate) for $200/month.--Best regards,John Navas CABLE MODEM/DSL GUIDE:
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