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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rudedog who wrote (48311)	8/2/2000 10:36:58 AM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

In this country, most ADSL providers use "set up your own web-server" and "Fixed IP address" as a slogan, and that's also what I have seen in reality. But of course, they might change the IP address eventually, but that is also the case for webhotels. Additionally, most ADSL solutions use a Cisco router (mostly ATM based), which makes multiple computers on one connection very, very easy and no software required. Only Ameritech operates with a modem-based solution, which is the main reason not to choose Ameritech over here. Setting up a home network requires you to be able to connect to a share on a Windows 2000. I haven't found a way to do without setting up the username of the Windows 9x computer on the Windows 2000 as a user. Maybe it is easy, I just haven't heard of anyone to succeed in doing so, even people proclaiming they are professionally educated Windows 2000 System Administrators. Most people I know, that want to make a share for public download on a Windows 2000 just install the FTP server to do so, because they cannot make the File Sharing stuff work that way. On Windows NT this is straightforward: You just set the permissions for "Everybody" to have read access. And then we've got the problem with the appartments - a swedish company now offers flat-rate telephone services and 10Mbps internet services for as low as $15 a month, if at least 30% of the appartments in a building accepts the offer. The only problem is, that Windows sees all other appartments in the block as being on the LAN - and the default security setting in Microsoft Internet Explorer is low for LANs... this will probably lead to very bad press coverage. Now, I didn't search for the disadvantages. I searched for special advantages, that MSFT could have in this upcoming ADSL market. Not just technical advantages, but advantages, that could become a sales parameter.