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To: Stan Harrison who wrote (6243)	1/1/2000 10:48:00 AM
From: Matthew L. Jones	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 18137

Stan, I use a device called a "WebRamp", which I have posted several times about. It is a network device which launches three separate 56K modems to different ISP's. I have effectively the equivalent of 168K speed and gobs of bandwidth. Reality is more like 148K (still much faster than ISDN) and has the added benefit of redundancy, and multiple routing due to the different ISP's I use. This is a very important feature in this stage of the development of the net. I have very few data flow problems. It is like the reliability of a LAN only its internet. As you know, ISP's tend to disconnect you routinely after a fixed number of hours or minutes on a connection, idle or not. Then you have to relaunch the dialup connection and reconnect (generally 2-3 minutes at best). Now I don't know about you, but this always seemed to happen when I was mid trade in some internet stock which had a five minute range of $10! Now, if I lose one ISP for a moment, the WebRamp relaunces the modem and reconnects me (all without my involvement) and in the meantime continues to maintain my internet connection using the other ISP's and modems. All I get is theoretical slow down to the equivalent speed and bandwidth of ISDN, but I never notice any change whatsoever in reality. Another advantage is the sharing of internet connections with the entire LAN. I have six machines on my network (4 for our home school and 2 for my trading), all of which use the internet connections with no slowdowns whatsoever. I would recommend your looking into it as my webramp has been online now for 18 months and I have yet to have a single issue with it. It has never shut down, it has never dropped modems, it has never had a network problem. It works so consistently that I forget it is there. Plus, if I go mobile (vacation) I still have the ability to use my traditional modem in my notebook and my existing ISP account(s) without any configuration changes or anything. This device is one of the coolest things I have stumbled on to. Matt