Paul,
Re: @HOME
Are you sure that it's @HOME that is dragging their feet or might it be your cable company? I have @HOME but it runs over the wiring provided by our cable company, Intermedia. For a long time, in this area, Intermedia's infrastructure was the gate, not @HOME.
At any rate, the cable modem experience has been truly awesome. The only problem is that both my wife and I need to upgrade to faster notebooks now :o(
There is no comparison between the overall speed using the PII450 networked downstairs and the two P133 notebooks on the network in the bedroom (the notebook ethernet cards are even bus-card versions). Unfortunately, most of my internet activity is done on the notebook. In the old days <ggg> when we had a phone line connection to the internet, the speed was not noticeably different between the desktop PC and the notebooks. At that point, the connection speeds was, by far, the dominating gate.
Contrary to what many of the simple minded pundits think, more bandwidth means more desire for higher end components including the CPU.
Good luck with getting faster access,
FF
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