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To: Jim TenIron who wrote (26744)	12/9/2000 12:59:10 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) of 29970

Most cons have been related to speed, with one friend saying he was thinking of switching to a DSL service. Most operating systems are not optimized for a broadband connection. Your friends need to make some speed tweaks in order to get the advertised speed out of @Home. Also they will need to turn off their proxy server, the proxy servers slow everything down. I have DSL at work and I can testify that it isn't faster than a tweaked @Home connection. In fact, its a great deal slower. As more DSL connections get rolled out from the central office where you have your connection it will get slower and slower because once your dedicated line hits the DSLAM you are sharing the connection with everyone else on that DSLAM. The DSL providers are assuming that net traffic will be bursty, so they are going to over-subscribe those lines, especially the cheap consumer service because it is the only way they can make any money at all.

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