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To: Libbyt who wrote (3824)	12/8/2000 12:22:02 AM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

Oh i love the topic. As an investment...I've had my clock cleaned by DSL and i think They will go bust from their greed and Convertible bond offerings... From a technical (user) Standpoint DSL is great if you can get it....You're out there on a node on the shooting gallery and somebody can take you out...You've got your own IP address and your doing e-commerce from your bedroom...(don't leave your checkbook on your computer) With cable at least theoretically your on a LAN set up by the cable company....and theoretically your behind their firewall...so only you can get whacked by broadcast storms from other people sharing your Collision Domain. That's kind of an oversimplification...but what they hey... Bandwidth is bandwith...I notice when i work at a T-1 line ...i just think so much faster..and work so much faster..and am much more efficient... Rather than click and wait....

To: Libbyt who wrote (3824)	12/8/2000 12:28:28 AM
From: fedhead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

Cable is a shared medium. Having said that even with slowdown cable speeds are still very good. I think whoever reaches the customer first and provides good service will win. Service from people like Rhythms have been horrible. One advantage of cable is that people are already used to paying extra for premium services via cable so high speed net access would be another service. Anindo

To: Libbyt who wrote (3824)	12/8/2000 1:13:03 AM
From: Bill Harmond	Respond to of 57684

Libbyt, Cable is still far faster than basic DSL. Look at these rankings from DSL reports taken this week. Note the cable companies are still at the top of the list with somewhere around a 2x advantage, even during peak usage hours. dslreports.com Not that any of this matters. A typical real-world download over the web is under 500 kbps on any connection even if it's rated faster than that. This is a really interesting website, given to me by my Pacbell tech. There is a great speed test here, if not using Netscape Java. My Pacbell DSL connection is consistently around 1192 kbps. I'm about 10,000 feet from the CO. dslreports.com