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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (33612)	9/24/2000 10:57:55 PM
From: Peace	Read Replies (2) of 50167

*OT* Hi GZ, I have a cable modem and my ISP is @home. I am not sure if it is the same service that ATT is offering you. I have had this service for about 2 years. Initially it was very erratic in terms of speed and I used to have a lot of outages but several months ago they upgraded the network and gave us new cable modems. Since then I mostly see speeds between 2.5 and 3 Mbits and the service has been virtually outage free. I had been looking into DSL but dropped the idea as they couldnt even get me 1.5Mbit which is what Mindspring offers. The speed depends on the distance between your DSL modem and the local Central office. For cable service I believe it is still a coax cable from your house to the local hub in your neighborhood and then it is fiber beyond that. You do share bandwidth with your neighbors with a cable modem so it is difficult to forecast the speed you will get. I have been pretty satisfied with my cable modem service and will not consider DSL until the speeds get better or my cable service degrades as more users sign up. I believe that the current 1.5 Mbit offered for consumer DSL is expected to go up to 4 Mbit next year. Good luck. Peace

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