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To: PartyTime who wrote (6801)	5/9/1998 12:45:00 AM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 18444

Party, I have a cable modem - a pretty good one (Motorola BitSufr, 33Mbit/sec cable speed, 10Mbit/sec interface speed downloading, 768Kbit/sec uploading) and a pretty good service (Cox @Home). I can download the latest version of Netscape in less than 1 minute. In actual tests, the fastest speed I've actually seen is around 700kbytes/sec (yes, kBYTES - what was a pretty good hard disk speed a couple of years ago) on a download. You need a GOOD PCI Ethernet card to get this. (The top speed went from 400Kbytes/sec to 700Kbytes/sec when I upgraded up Ethernet card.) I still avoid web pages with complicated ads. While I use www.news.com as one of my primary sources of technology news, I hate it when one of their stupid animated ads interferes with loading a page. I just plain avoid pages that use Java. I bookmark the Datek (brokerage) order page, and avoid like the plague their home page, which has this stupid Dilbert ticker. The variation between various web sites is HUGE. The biggies - Netscape, Microsoft, news.com, WSJ, etc. are usually pretty good. Many sites look like I'm still using a 28.8 modem, though. @Home is using multicasting for some video content, including Bloomberg. This solves much of the problem, at least for video content. (I can't use it, since I refuse to use @Home's modified Netscape, which is a few versions behind the latest release...) I certainly would never go back to a modem, and I look forward to the day that my cable modem will work even better. But I DON'T want it being used to push ever more obnoxious, annoying, animated ads at me.