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To: Graham Dellaire who wrote (21000)	2/25/1998 12:12:00 PM
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DSL column discussion page 1...if interested I will post the other three pages!!Just fluff !!! y Rob Gebeloff A Reality Check for DSL February 25, 1998 -- The dream, I'm told, will not come true. Or worse. It could become a nightmare. Now, I already suffer from that recurring episode where a ferocious tiger gets loose in the mall and stalks me into the corner by the Mr. Twisty pretzel stand and gnarls something about how I haven't been spending enough time patting my cat Lola's noggin. So the last thing I need is someone telling me that my one wonderful repeat dream, of a super-fast Internet that delivers video e-mail and sports highlights and phone calls -- all for one low price -- is really an incubus in disguise. But that's what Gene Shklar is telling me, save for the word incubus, which is mine. Shklar represents Keynote Systems, a California company that is in the business of measuring, comparing and quality-assuring the performance of computer networks. And what Keynote has to say about the Internet does not support the underlying reality upon which my lighting-fast Internet dream is based. It was resolved a few weeks ago that the telephone and computer industry would band together and come up with a standard for a technology called DSL, or digital subscriber line, known in some corners as ADSL, or Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line. This represents a mighty big technological step, so mighty and big that I've seen grown gearheads bumbling at the mouth in an effort to explain how it works, and how it's different from other transmission technologies, such as ISDN. But what's important to know is what DSL means for consumers. And that is, pure and simple, speed. It turns the little copper wires connected to your telephone into broad conduits of data. The form of DSL everyone seems to be settling upon can move more than 1 million bits of data per second into your computer, which is, on paper, fast enough to send you the complete Netscape Navigator software suite in less 30 seconds. (Try 30 hours if you're going at 28,800 bits per second and trying to download the software from America Online). page 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4