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To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (10163)2/4/1997 2:12:00 PM
From: David Lawrence   of 18024
 
James, you need to study up on network architecture, because it's obvious that you don't have a clue as to what you're talking about. AOL is an ISP, period. As a matter of fact, they are the biggest ISP in the world. What separates them is the fact that they provide content and access, versus pure ISPs who provide access only. Compuserve is a similar situation content and access provider. There is value in the content.

All Internet providers use a pipe/gateway/proxy or whatever you want to call it to access the Internet backbone. Repeat, all. The Internet works the same from AOL as it does from any other ISP, if you know what you are doing. Their gateway is slow simply because they are adding users faster than they are adding bandwidth, which is the same problem facing other growing ISPs.

BTW I have no position in AOL.

David
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