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To: Dustin who wrote (15662)	5/7/1999 2:11:00 PM
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Dustin, I don't think you understand ATHM well enough to reach such conclusions. Locally I have an option of both ATHM and DSL. When doing side-by-side comparisons I found (in my local market) that ATHM is cheaper than DSL and is quite a bit faster (10 times faster). When looking at DSL speed keep in mind that pay more for the faster access. The $40 price range is typically for 640K access only. Yes, the speed will slow down some on ATHM if you have lots of folks in your community accessing the net at the same time. But, most recently upgraded cable plants have been designed to handle a significant number of multiple users. You won't be able to get always get the 20mb potential speed, but 6-8 mb is very typical. I have had ATHM for several months and have yet to experience an outage or slow connection. I am sure DSL is also reliable. I don't understand why you, and others, keep narrowly thinking that there will be one broadband winner. Wrong! There will be many, many winners--cable, DSL and wireless (to some extent). The potential reach of each broadband delivery system is limited geographically. The demand is extremely high and there will be several successful providers of high speed access.

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