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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (7162)	6/4/2000 10:35:00 AM
From: Herc	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

I'm briefly back on regular 44kbps internet service and find it most curious that my ADSL service @ 1500-1800 kpbs was only marginally faster for most functions. Sure, for software/MP3 downloads, ADSL is a lot faster. But for most internet functions, the difference in speed is negligible. I guess the rate limiting step is the website servers I'm accesssing which work at the same speed despite whatever last mile access I have. We need more Akamai and Inktomi caches to boost those speeds. But BellSouth seems to have perfected their ADSL service in New Orleans.