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To: Mad Bomber who wrote (19755)	2/19/2000 5:39:00 PM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

" Right now, the universe of high-speed Web service is minuscule. According to a report by Sanford C. Bernstein and McKinsey & Co., there were about 228,000 residential DSL customers at the end of 1999. By comparison, there were 1.62 million customers for the cable companies' high-speed Web access, delivered using powerful modems and upgraded cable lines." msnbc.com

To: Mad Bomber who wrote (19755)	2/19/2000 7:45:00 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Cable vs DSL - Top Ten Myths Message 12917634 FWIW, I have Charter's cable modem and asked the guys about a lot of these concerns when it was upgraded. They confirmed much of what is in this report.

To: Mad Bomber who wrote (19755)	2/19/2000 10:18:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

You say it has always been a network problem, but you are also saying you can't log on always. Log on to what? @Home is always on, always "logged on". Do you have a Motorola modem? If so, does the cable light go off, or, on and off, when your service is dropped? You say you wrote a Java program, "a daemon which would log to a database whenever the system went up and down". By this I assume you meant that you wanted to create a log of access failures. What process is launching the daemon thread? An HTML shell? A native Java process or thread? Which IDE are you using to compose the program? You say your service suddenly goes down. This is almost certainly due to your HFC dropdown, i.e., the CATV line that comes into the premises. There's no point in calling @Home. That kind of problem resides under the purview of your cable operator. What company do you pay for your service? I have some ideas about what is the problem, but I need to know if you live in a single family dwelling or an MDU and I need the above questions answered.