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To: jhild who wrote (27995)	12/16/1997 11:38:00 AM
From: Gary Korn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 61433

More than 2 hours into the trading day and fewer than 1MM shares traded. Can anyone comment on the cessation of significant volume? Gary Korn

To: jhild who wrote (27995)	12/16/1997 12:18:00 PM
From: pae	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

OT: more bandwidth,sooner! I'd be happy to share an early experience with Shotgun, but I suspect my geographic area will be late to the party as always. I think your point about complicated/intensive applies more to cable modems than shotgun. I gather (someone said "familiar framework") that shotgun is user-installable - much like today's typical modem. And certainly the OS hooks/interface/whatever are in place for modem drivers. One reason the cable company wants to send their tech out to my house is because the install is a pain. I have read (don't ask me where) that Windows98 will encorporate the interface that will make the cable modem driver install like any other driver. The cable guys also would have to ensure that the upstream can flow past any splitters, amplifiers, etcetera that the homeowner may have installed. My point is that in a few months I can stop into Egghead/OfficeDepot/Walmart, buy the shotgun board/box, go home and plug it in, call the local ISP and be online at a speed of 112. The shotgun will be marketed and adopted in a mass-market manner, not the bureaucratic painfully inept manner of a monopoly. I agree whole-heartedly that 7x24 at huge bandwidth is the only way to be. But in my isolated little backwater, the cable company shows no signs of getting into this decade much less preparing for year 2000. The phone company is busy exploiting its monopoly (ISDN pricing) and struggling with wireless phone competition. Unfortunately, neither of the 2 companies with the natural base to support a network appear to be focused on it. So I plan to go with my best local ISP. Perhaps this doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. But, unfortunately, I would rank the bulk of the country as more like Pgh PA than California. So, while cable modems WOULD be great (like Betamax?), I have doubts that the technology will dominate. What will dominate? I don't know, but somebody mentioned xDSL. Did anyone mention an xDSL play? Would that be PAIR? Cheers!