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To: Kayaker who wrote (49064)	11/11/1999 12:32:00 PM
From: Kayaker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

FWIW, I talked to a Go2Net tech guy this morning. Apparently, SI is attempting to add real time quotes and as far as he knows this has been the cause of the SI outages lately.

To: Kayaker who wrote (49064)	11/11/1999 12:56:00 PM
From: S100	Respond to of 152472

<You can use the newer phones as modems and just connect them to your laptop with a serial cable.> You could use the older cell phones (with an external modem?) as shown in the following from a 1995 news article. takedown.com ------------------------------ Data came from Walker showing that telephone calls had been placed to Netcom's dial-in phone bank in Raleigh through a cellular telephone modem. The calls were moving through a local switching office operated by GTE Corp. But GTE's records showed that the calls had looped through a nearby cellular phone switch operated by Sprint Corporation. Because of someone's clever manipulation of the network software, the GTE switch thought that the call had come from the Sprint switch, and the Sprint switch thought that the call had come from GTE. Neither company had a record identifying the cellular phone. When Shimomura called the number in Raleigh, he could hear it looping around with a "clunk, clunk" sound. He called a Sprint technician in Raleigh and spent five hours comparing Sprint's calling records with the Netcom log-ins. It was almost dawn in San Jose when they determined that the cellular phone calls were being placed from near the Raleigh-Durham International Airport.