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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: drmorgan who wrote (9442)	11/18/1997 7:21:00 PM
From: Mang Cheng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

<I was thinking about how I personally don't like the idea of tying up a phone line with cable> You don't seems to have to tie up a phone line with Coms' one-way cable modem : ************************************************************** "Breaking down links" " Because residential customers don't like the thought of tying up phone lines while accessing the Internet through their cable system, 3Com is emphasizing dynamic IP assignment and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. When UDP datagrams or multicast streaming sessions are being sent from a server, the upstream phone link does not need to be maintained. In fact, it can be broken down for most of the time a user is online, then re-established automatically when the user wants to send information back to the server." techweb.com Mang