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To: Brian Malloy who wrote (2660)1/15/1999 9:12:00 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 41369
 
The ADSL service through Bell is a "best effort service", meaning that there are no guarantees on uptime or bandwidth.

Hi Brian,

That's your basic "cover your ass" statement made by the company. Similar to all the caveats you read in a prospectus ... "past performance is not indicative of future returns, yada yada yada."

Any pipe is going to have bandwith problems when enough people use it -- cable included. Have friends that use cable modems that get bogged down during heavy traffic hours. Ditto ISDN and dial up. DSL will use the same copper, and while you can squeeze more K out, that doesn't mean you can squeeze more users in and maintain the same output.

Regardless, DSL and cable will be faster then dialup. As for the $20 service, remember that it is on top of the AOL subscriber charges. So your looking at $40+. Of course, that doesn't include installation and network card, etc.

S.
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