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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (19324)	1/29/2000 4:31:00 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

it is pointed directly at the @work segment of users. Exactly, they are going after DSL dollars, T1 dollars and VPN dollars. @Home can't go after that market but @Work can and it is about time that they did. higher pricing levels which telecommuters and in some cases the enterprises they work for are willing to pay There is always going to be different pricing levels between what will be used in a commercial situation and what will be used in a residence. When I make a decision about an expense in my business, as opposed to an expense at home, I use completely different criteria for judging whether it is worth what I'm paying. For one, a business expense is pre-tax and the other is after tax. An expense in business should always add to your profitability by reducing an expense somewhere else or increasing your top line and therefore paying for itself (in theory). I'd be jumping on this @Work VPN if I was shelling out thousands for leased lines or T1 lines in my business. The only way @Work's solutions would be worth it for me at this point is if I got them to include a WAN to my residence. I seem to recall a guy coming on the thread last year saying that he had them set him up just that way. Unfortunely I'm too far away from a CO for DSL in my home, at my business I'm within drilling distance (literally, I'm fighting with the BEL guys over parking spaces). So I would have to have a mixed situation.(cable at home and DSL at work) AFAIK the MSOs have not made any provisions for increased upstream over the cable, even if you are willing to pay commercial rates. After all the bruhaha over the upstream limits there was some talk about levels of service with differing price points but I don't know if anything came of it.