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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (70897)	11/3/1999 7:26:00 PM
From: Captain Jack	Respond to of 97611

El-- I do not think there will be an immediate huge mkt but many will be ordered. It will be ordered much more often as upgrades are purchased IF a new box can be ordered ready and the card/wire for the old box is also available. I have 4 'puters in the house now. The lap has no reason to network. One I want seperate (w free AV) the others have been strung together. COMS has just released a networking setup complete for $149... great way to go if you cannot or are uncomfortable opening the box and playing. What are the ISPs going to do now with multiple boxes easily purchased or made ready off the shelf AND free ISPs? Good move as the margin should be high!

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (70897)	11/4/1999 6:10:00 PM
From: Ben Kreischer	Respond to of 97611

Does anyone besides me own the Diamond HomeFree networking kit? I hope that this new version is better than the 1MB kit ($150) because it is about as terrible a product as I've bought in a long time. It works, sort of, but I couldn't even get a simple e-mail message to transmit reliably. 2 out of 5 times, I got the message, 3 of 5 it times out (with a 5-minute threshold even). The kicker is that it ruins the performance on the host machine - I have an ISDN modem, but with the package loaded, even without the slave machine turned on, I get about 28.8 performance. woeful product.