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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (113)	2/25/2006 6:58:35 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7978

I think SBC and I are headed for a head-to-head butting contest. I think the problem is in my computers software, BUT they aren't telling me what I set it to to make this work. They have to tell you; your chances of just figuring it out by trying things is essentially nil. For example, there are 255^4 IP addresses. THat's 4,228,250,625 possibilities. Holly SWEARS BY cable. 'Course. if you know Holly, she swears by everything. :-) With all the bandwidth they have in cable? Yeah, you'd think they could give MSG its own channel. OTOH, why waste good bandwidth on sports? :-)

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (113)	2/25/2006 10:17:51 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7978

Tom, Comcast sounds a lot like Century Cable, a company that used to serve the San Francisco Bay area. CSPAN shared airspace with The Playboy Channel, which took over that channel every night at 6:00 p.m.--even when Congress was debating commencing with Desert Storm! That move brought howls of protest from Century's subscribers, but to no avail. Century's service was lousy, its programming mediocre at best. Century reps managed to have one of our more mild-mannered city councilmen pounding his fists on his desk, in frustration, trying to get straight answers out of them at a city council meeting--ironically, broadcast by Century. Century finally faded into oblivion or merged or was bought by some other company (maybe Comcast). I am with Charter Cable now and am enormously pleased with it. - Holly