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To: Ilaine who wrote (86860)3/28/2001 6:00:18 PM
From: XBrit  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
<<Ethernet to the home is a good solution, but I don't understand how it can be deployed without actually laying fiber to the home - which is a really big deal.>>

Yep exactly. Who gives a rat's ass what protocol is being used, that's not the problem. The problem for somebody like me in the middle of SIlicon Valley is that AT&T won't get cable modems to us for another 3 freakin' years, and many of us are 20,000 feet from our PacBell CO and SBC just announced a huge slowdown in Project Pronto which was supposed to fix that.

I'm presently using a slowed-down 384k DSL which they installed by accident (they mis-measured my distance from the CO), plus a Sprint broadband microwave connection whose speed varies widely between 20 kbit/s and 5000 kbit/s depending on time of day and rain.

Fortunately I was a software engineer before I became a short seller, so I can handle the complexity of the home network setup.
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