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To: The Phoenix who wrote (38933)	3/12/1998 11:28:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

Cablemodems?...We're years away from this being a reality. Cable is starting to take off. I have had it for 18 months now but this was a test area. I do agree with you that carriers will not be able to keep up. WDM is still expensive contrary to the article. Glenn

To: The Phoenix who wrote (38933)	3/13/1998 1:14:00 AM
From: Greg Jung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

I'd like to add my own ahmen to that sentiment (Bandwidth boom? phooey!). Lots of hot air from execs trying to extend the IPO boom and stave off a riot in AOL, yahoo, amzn shareholders. They oughta get drug tested. Random web browsing will be pokey, at best, for a long while. Nowdays it is more reliable to get stock quotes from SI than from yahoo. And get a 5-minute graph from fast quote on a hot trading day? forget it. Maybe you folks in California don't get the bottlenecks I get from the East coast. I'm not sure now whether the POP's are much at fault anymore. 1/2 the time the user will just not want to bother with it. I thought my IBM connection was funky and I cancelled it, then I found out my modem was somehow magically sharing the same IRQ as the mouse. The I-net connection didn't deserve a $21/mo charge, anyway, as all services (on web) are too slow when they were needed. Now web pages are acquiring the same type of bloat we've seen in software - just when you upgrade enough to view them they tack more stuff ("its only a few more seconds") and we now get a visual barrage of chatter and advertisements while searching for anything. Greg