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To: Process Boy who wrote (97521)	3/8/2000 8:57:00 PM
From: milo_morai	Respond to of 1576263

OT: In truth you are sharing bandwidth all the time as you are just one or two hops from yourself to the network. So it's a illusion in your mind. We don't call them Pods we call them Nodes and your are only sharing your 10 Mbps of download with 100 or so people and your upload is fixed bandwidth per user. Most users are averaging 200K to 300KBytes per second downloads.. you can't get that with DSL. Milo

To: Process Boy who wrote (97521)	3/8/2000 9:50:00 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1576263

OT: Another problem the level of access to xDSL and cost. DSL is limited by US Worst and GTE to 15K ft. from C.0. or Remote and your phone line has to not have any loading coils in it(CoVAD does offer out to 30k ft. at a premium rate). You can Get ISDN out to 18K ft with no repeaters and out to 36K ft with a repeater. Also DSL costs min. $40 for the slowest service of 256k/64k plus the cost of a ISP (around $24 bucks for same rate) Cable is only $39/ month with no real limits from HeadEnd. Cable Modems average d/l rates of 1 to 3 T1 lines combined. Cable is the best bandwidth per $ you can get. And is very easy to segment users as growth increases. Milo P.S. Get your cable modem today!