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To: Paul Engel who wrote (88695)	9/23/1999 12:53:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "@HOME - located a few miles NORTH of me is too frigging busy to wire the Silicon Valley - instead they are making plans to wire Japan and Europe. Those folks are so BRAIN DEAD it makes Jerry Sanders look BRILLIIANT !" I have enjoyed my Cable modem for some months now. When you get one you'll NEVER go back. It's everything you hope it will be! It's as fast as my LAN where I work! Hope they get to you soon! EP

To: Paul Engel who wrote (88695)	9/23/1999 2:23:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul - <@HOME - located a few miles NORTH of me is too frigging busy to wire the Silicon Valley - instead they are making plans to wire Japan and Europe. Those folks are so BRAIN DEAD it makes Jerry Sanders look BRILLIIANT !> I now pay $32/Mo. to GTE for 768kbps downstream and 128kbps upstream, +ISP charge of $17 for unlimited usage. This is from 256/128 service at $35 and $20 for Internet when I signed up six months ago. Have not had one bit of disruption in almost 6 months. DSL bandwidth is coming down in price quickly. I find it hard to comprehend that your cable company would sluff off wiring an area such as yours. If I were providing DSL down there, I'd be mailing fliers like crazy. PB

To: Paul Engel who wrote (88695)	9/23/1999 6:16:00 AM
From: Fred Fahmy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Re: @HOME Are you sure that it's @HOME that is dragging their feet or might it be your cable company? I have @HOME but it runs over the wiring provided by our cable company, Intermedia. For a long time, in this area, Intermedia's infrastructure was the gate, not @HOME. At any rate, the cable modem experience has been truly awesome. The only problem is that both my wife and I need to upgrade to faster notebooks now :o( There is no comparison between the overall speed using the PII450 networked downstairs and the two P133 notebooks on the network in the bedroom (the notebook ethernet cards are even bus-card versions). Unfortunately, most of my internet activity is done on the notebook. In the old days <ggg> when we had a phone line connection to the internet, the speed was not noticeably different between the desktop PC and the notebooks. At that point, the connection speeds was, by far, the dominating gate. Contrary to what many of the simple minded pundits think, more bandwidth means more desire for higher end components including the CPU. Good luck with getting faster access, FF