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To: LTK007 who wrote (59126)	4/30/2002 1:26:54 PM
From: ajtj99	Respond to of 99280

No, still here. We just switched to WCOM in our office, and our dial-up dropped from 56K to 28.8. We found out yesterday WCOM can get us DSL just barely, as we are at the very end of the max distance, and only 128K is available for that. We don't have cable options, and everything else is expensive due to lack of competition. ISDN is a dinosaur, so we've got limited options outside of a T1. Satellite is not reliable, and we can't cost justify a T1. The bad thing is sometimes our graphics people upload huge files to our FTP site, and that really drags things down. Anti-Virus downloads daily also take up bandwidth. I signed up for the DSL today, but we won't have it for 3-weeks through WCOM. I could have gotten a cheaper rate for a 3-year contract, which would be void when the go Chapter 11, but the risk/reward was not compelling enough. Going to hook up my cable modem in a bit during my Mosis lunch at home. VDSL will be out soon, and that's the option we'll go with as soon as it is available (maybe 2-years, as the ink just dried on the standards I believe).