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To: James Fulop who wrote (15609)	9/10/1999 12:00:00 PM
From: Dee Jay	Respond to of 42804

James, for all the hype DSL does not work for everyone: you have to be within 3 miles or so of the Central Office and your line must be sufficiently noise-free so as to carry the DSL signal. I can't get it where I am. Even when it works it is more expensive than a cable modem, at least in most places. DSL can be sold at varying prices because it has multiple speeds, so for consumers they can sell a service at around 330 mbps for $40-45, and then for businesses they can sell higher speeds at tiered prices as well. My cable modem service, at around $45, runs at a nominal 1,000+ mbps. The downside for cable modem service is that as others in my neighborhood come online they siphon off signal speed so that during primetime the actual speed of delivery is maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of the rated speed - still a huge difference over normal modem speed (can't get 56K here either for the same reasons can't get DSL) and still well above the DSL speed. FWIW. Dee Jay