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To: Gottfried who wrote (56787)	12/2/2001 4:40:06 PM
From: daryll40	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Gottfried, while you are right that this will affect the growth of the internet, you can't put your head in the sand to technology that one way or another will "finally arrive" someday. Many people bot Kaisers, and Packards and those companies went bust leaving people with "orphan" cars (like today's Oldsmobiles and Plymouths...sort of...at least there's still the parent companies). But the auto industry still grew. Same will happen for the internet.

To: Gottfried who wrote (56787)	12/3/2001 1:33:17 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

OT Gottfried, reliability is definitely a concern of mine as well. A couple of months ago AT&T had a then rare outage that lasted around a day or so. I am not a heavy trader, but I do trade, and as I had a trade open at the time, I realized that one spoiled trade would be enough to pay for the annual fee to have DSL as a backup. So I reinstated my old Earthlink account. One thing I like about them is that you also get a dialup account for when you are traveling. Yet to be seen is whether the dialup account will suffice as a backup for the DSL, or whether they tend to go down together. If the former, I may just dump AT&T. Speculation on the message boards is that they have been playing a game of brinksmanship, trying to get @home assets for a song, with their customers as pawns. Seems plausible. It's not as if they couldn't have anticipated this possibility. P.S. It's ironic that my Earthlink service went down as I was writing this. However, the outage only lasted 15 minutes or so, and it came back up before I got around to trying the dialup connection. The quest for redundancy continues. <no g>