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To: pass pass who wrote (27885)	12/14/1997 9:14:00 PM
From: Think4Yourself	Respond to of 61433

pass pass, you are PROBABLY right, BUT.. You can never be sure. Look what AmeriTrade (AMTD) is doing to E*Trade (EGRP) in the online stock brokerage service. It is a quantum leap if ever there was one. I feel sorry for anyone who stayed long EGRP these past few months. Ken

To: pass pass who wrote (27885)	12/14/1997 10:33:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

ADSL is cool and several magnitudes better than analog modem. But quantum leap in real life doesn't happen. Now you have 56k, then they may sell you 112k, then maybe 500k, then 1Mbps, then 2Mbps, and so on, don't expect to get 8Mbps overnight. pass pass, That is very true. There is not enough backbone to provide 8Mbs for everyone and it would take a lot of money to beef the backbone to handle that capacity. The servers are also inadequate. The fastest speed will be the slowest bottleneck. My cable modem access does not hit the peak due to our ISP connection to the net, the backbone of the net or the servers, etc. When we have adequate capacity but data is not arriving as quickly as we (meaning the ISP and cable) can handle, we ge a dialogue box indicating net congestion. Put a few thousand more people on this cable system and we could use all the bandwidth coming anywhere near Erie or Pittsburgh. Glenn