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Strategies & Market Trends : Cents and Sensibility - Kimberly and Friends' Consortium -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JeanD who wrote (11086)	7/8/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: Bob Biersack	Respond to of 108040

Had it for 18 months ./...IT'S GREAT!! Pay 29.95...special discount... now 49.95 for new subscribers!!

To: JeanD who wrote (11086)	7/8/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: Ga Bard	Respond to of 108040

Due Diligence has it. GB

To: JeanD who wrote (11086)	7/8/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: vagabond	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108040

Jean... (this is "OT" to others, but maybe of interest) -- I don't know how much help this will be, but I recently installed an A-D-S-L line -- and I can't even imagine now how I got along without it. It's made an incredible difference in my stock-trading and monitoring abilities (with my old modem, I had to wait FOREVER for things to display as I moved back-and-forth between trading screens -- and I couldn't run some programs at all because they tied my relatively-old computer in knots) -- not to mention the fact that I can now download a 15-MB file from the Internet in about three minutes instead of an hour-and-half... So if you're considering a cable Internet hookup, but live in an area where D-S-L is also available, I'd suggest doing a close comparison of the two systems to figure out which would really be best for you. Note that D-S-L is in fact much FASTER than a cable connection -- and depending on where you live and who provides the service, it might even be cheaper or at least not much more expensive. My own D-S-L "package" runs $49/month -- but that INCLUDES full-time Internet access (which meant I could dump my old $18/month ISP), AND because the D-S-L hookup is a "split" data/voice line, it has the effect of giving me a second phone line (I can now be on-line and still use the phone -- which avoids the costs of a separate phone line, which I would've had to install otherwise). So overall, it's really only costing me about $20/month more than I'd be paying without it -- and it's made a WORLD of difference (in fact, I'd originally thought I'd have to buy a new computer to handle my online investing activities -- but the addition of the D-S-L line and an extra 16MB of RAM have now made my old machine purr like a kitten). Just wanted to make sure you consider the D-S-L option, IF it's available to you (in case anyone doesn't know this: receiving D-S-L service doesn't depend only on having some company make it available in your area -- with the present technology, you also have to live within about five miles of a main telephone-company exchange)... Vagabond