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To: Paul Engel who wrote (85210)	7/10/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: Fred Fahmy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul and all...another reason to upgrade your CPU I recently entered the world of cable modem access. About 90% of my web browsing is done on this Toshiba 510CDT (lowly P133) notebook. My power machine, used for digital sound and image processing, is downstairs. Up until now, a P133 (pre MMX) was fine for browsing the web. That all changed with the arrival of my broadband connection. For example, I use to avoid internet video...now I seek it out. The problem is that, in many cases, the PC speed has now become the gate. There is no comparison between the overall speed (and enjoyment) I observe when browsing the web downstairs on my PII 400 vs. this notebook. My wife also has a P133 notebook. I am looking forward to upgrading both of these notebooks sometime next year. The other GREAT thing about the cable modem is that it finally motivated me to network all three of these PC's. The setup was very very simple..actually nothing to it. The cable line comes into the house and goes to the cable modem. An ethernet cable comes out of the modem and goes into the uplink port of a cheap ethernet hub (Linksys - $35). Three ethernet cables come out of the hub, one going to each computer. That's all there is to it. This has been fantastic. It is now so easy to keep software at the same level on all three computers. No more diskettes or ZIP disks. Also, the computer downstairs has a very large hard drive. We can use the notebooks up here (in the bedroom) to access the data and programs from the PC downstairs. Even more convenient is printing. We frequently find things we want to print while browsing. We don't have a printer connected to the notebooks. Now, however, we can print (via our network) to either the laser or inkjet printer downstairs. This home network has been simply wonderful. I strongly believe that home networks will proliferate in the future. This will be yet another driver for incremental PC sales. Once you have a home network, you will never want to be without one. With more and more multiple PC households, the evolution of home networking is a natural. Not so coincidentally, Intel has been pushing home networking hard. A final note.....when I was getting the ethernet cabling for the network, the guy at the store told me that many (most depending on which area of the country) new homes are being pre-wired with ethernet cabling. How cool and convenient. FF P.S. for those who have never experienced cable modem access....all I can say is WOW! I can FTP a 10Meg file in 2-3 minutes. This is especially handy since many company's are making software upgrades available via the internet.