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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (12024)	7/27/1998 2:03:00 AM
From: BDR	Respond to of 18691

OT-DSL I'll let you know in three to four weeks when I get my DSL service. I signed up when I learned that cable wouldn't be available to me for one or possibly two years. Advantages are supposed to be those you described, cost is about what you quoted. Speeds are either 256Kbps or 512 Kbps where I am (determined by the quality of the line I gather) but USWorst also has service at 768Kbps and 1+Mbps in certain locations. I was talking to someone at my ISP about DSL v. cable and his comment was interesting. He had a cable connection and said it was blazingly fast "when he was asleep". What he meant was that, because it is a shared connection with all the other users in a given area, the high connection rates quoted only occur at low volume times. When everyone else is awake and logged on the speed drops to DSL rates or worse.