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Strategies & Market Trends : ahhaha's ahs
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To: ahhaha who wrote (265)10/19/2000 2:40:59 PM
From: gpowellRead Replies (1) of 24758
 
Your post was perfectly understandable. Until you apply the tweaks and bypass the proxy servers your speed is limited to something in the range of 200kb/s to 500kb/s. Further to bypass the proxy servers isn’t a trivial exercise. I found the @home Netscape version caused the most problems, its impossible to permanently bypass the proxy server until a .cfg file is deleted and a clean one is installed from Netscape. To bypass the proxies with Explorer required the deletion of a .dll. (Speedguide provided the details.)

In both cases the easiest solution for most users is to never load the @Home supplied browser. Otherwise, you will be relegated to the speed of the servers and that may not be enough to convince enough people to switch from dialup, which of course was the point of your post. Why else are the MSOs dropping the introductory price?

How about the Webster’s dictionary guy who is now saying that “people” claimed self-install was impossible. I didn’t bother responding, since its now obvious that he never understood the arguments. I now realize it was a complete waste of time to engage these fellows.

If these guys are serious about self-install, including self install of the modem to the existing house wiring, then the marginal costs of maintaining the network will go up, perhaps exponentially. Further, the revenue per customer will decline as rebates are given for outages.

The good news may be that the cost of maintaining the coax loop may make it obvious that the average total cost of fiber is cheaper in the long run.
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