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To: Stewart V. Nelson who wrote (10934)	11/30/1997 7:03:00 PM
From: Mike Milton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 45548

<I would love a cable modem also, but the technology is not ready for prime time yet> My cable modem was installed in 1.5 hours including running the cable to the room. It works great. While my connection is running at about 7 times the speed of a T1 (10mbps both directions), I notice that the rest of world is much slower. It's a faster connection than what I have at work but you probably wouldn't notice. Once you get to a certain speed, going any faster won't help until everyone is there. The bottlenecks seem to be servers, my PC, and the Internet in general. I bet the Internet doesn't run much faster than ISDN speeds. If this is true, who cares about buying faster access via ADSL, cable modem or otherwise.