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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Morris Catt who wrote (1320)	10/24/2001 10:08:27 AM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

OT: I hit your DirecDSL link and, of course, it's not available in my area. So I checked DirecPC and DirecWay. Interesting that they never say exactly what the bandwidth is. Even in the FAQ, where the question is "How fast is the DIRECWAY System?", they coyly avoid answering. Instead, they give this: A: The experience with DIRECWAY high-speed Internet is astonishing. When comparing typical activities with a dial-up service, the difference in the amount of time you'll be waiting for what you want is night and day. You can download software upgrades in just minutes, versus up to an hour. There's no more waiting for web pages to fully finish loading. They are typically done within a couple of seconds. Getting your favorite song can be done in less than the song's length rather than three times as long. As you can see this is a huge improvement... and broadband by satellite is the only high-speed Internet technology that's available everywhere in the continental U.S.! Unfortunately, I prefer real numbers rather than hype, so I'll have to give this one a miss, too. Also, they say that because of the latency, it's not recommended for online daytrading. Besides, 3 times faster (the closest thing to figures they'll give) isn't really worth $49.95 per month plus the hardware/installation cost.