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To: Elsewhere who wrote (130641)	8/8/2005 2:58:08 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793624

Any specific reason why you don't like a "cable box"? For my cable Net access I have The problem with the box has nothing to do with the internet access. For the internet, I would put my router in an out of the way place hooked up to a separate cable feed. The problem is with having to use a box for the TV, which I now control directly and flexibly through cable-ready TV, DRV, and VCR. If I upgraded to digital cable, I'd be stuck using a box for my TV and that's clumsy, like stepping back a decade or more in time. Let's say a dial-up user with an analog modem dedicates about 20 of the available 56 kbps to a background download. I think you can assume almost all of that 56 k would be devoted to the download. The occasional 'read next ten' on SI doesn't consume much. So it would take about a dozen hours to download that service pack. I've never seen an update that big. I don't recall ever downloading anything that took more than a couple of hours. Now a service pack of that size is something one would do once in a blue moon. I'd just let the download run overnight and do the update in the morning. No big deal. Sure, it would be more convenient if it were faster, but the marginal value of that is tiny.