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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (38637)	7/6/2001 5:27:53 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Got a new cable modem installed today. It was a pain to get it to work...... AT&T Broadband gave us several pages of instructions...... which we followed to the letter....... got the notebook to work right off, but the desktop was DOA. Soooooo, as usual, I spent half of the day putzing & rebooting & putzing & rebooting....... and calling AT&T Broadband tech support.......... turns out I did everything right...... they had to make some changes to allow their network to accept the new settings. What a pain that was......... but man oh man!! This new cable modem smokes! RCA says this modem can handle 3 meg/sec. I already had a cable modem from AT&T (for a monthly fee), but they now let you buy your own & save $10/month on your bill. Not too shabby since the RCA modem only cost $99. Look out folks! Bandwidth hog dead ahead :- Ö¿Ö

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (38637)	7/6/2001 5:34:17 PM
From: pbull	Respond to of 65232

I, for one, didn't expect a second-half recovery. There is no fundamental basis for such. I did, to an extent, feel that the powers that be, namely on Wall Street, would serve their best interests (not ours) and at least create the APPEARANCE of a bottoming economy this fall. Now, that too is in question. Yes, Japan is a mess and has been for years. Any of our major banks that get tangled up in that deserve whatever they get, in my opinion. Dollar continues to rise, creating a headwind for U.S. multinationals. All in all, not a pretty picture. Some domestic-oriented small- and mid-caps continue to buck the trend, as one would expect. PB