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To: ftth who wrote (2667)12/31/1998 1:08:00 AM
From: George T. Santamaria  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
<.... speed" connections have been so successfully brainwashed by the providers'
marketing hype that they'll swear up and down they're getting "lightning fast"
downloads and that it's 100 times faster than their old telco modem.>

I've been brainwashed by the experience of having a Cox@home connection. Anything I get from Yahoo has an imperceptible delay 95% of the time.

You ought to get one. Between the noisy phone line and the ISP network congestion, my old dial-up connection was a lot slower than the advertised 56k. "Up to 100X" is no baloney but 56k data rates are baloney. Sometime the dial-up ISP would slow down from a typical 20kBaud to 1k.
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