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Technology Stocks : Real Life Connection speeds ??
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To: Frenche who wrote (9)2/27/1997 4:19:00 AM
From: Larry Holmes   of 148
 
Frenche:

You have discovered the secret about cable modems; they only hit the speeds that are usually talked about when they are lightly loaded. Once a particular "neighborhood" has a relatively average number of users on it, the speed can be disappointing; they all share the bandwidth and it drops each time another user begins downloading data.
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