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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (67522)	7/13/1999 5:22:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Give it a rest yourself. Did I say I was using cable for my connection? Are you trying to say that I can't measure the speed on my pacbell line? Are you saying that all my friends who work in the valley don't complain about how crappy and slow their high speed connections are? > Give it a rest, Kissy. I have a friend who lives in Palo Alto and gets over 1Mb on his little cable hookup on a rainy day when everybody else is on the Web.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (67522)	7/13/1999 5:24:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Last time I checked, Yahoo or eBay or Exodus werent using consumer-level connections through PacBell. If I were willing to pay 40 grand a month I am sure they would park my servers a lot closer to MAE West. But I prefer to pay <100$ a month. Maybe you need to download hundreds of megabytes of porn a day and are willing to pay 200x that for a commercial grade server-farm connection, but I am not. > I'm sure Yahoo's or eBay's or Exodus' management would buy your argument that they should settle and be happy with one-third the bandwidth they're paying for because they're in Silicon Valley.