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To: Hiram Walker who wrote (2245)	10/23/1998 7:59:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Hiram - that's the tradeoff I pay for living out of the metro areas. The cable company TCI bought here had only reached our road a year before we built, so I don't see any rush on their part to get bidirectional plant in place soon. I am going to take up a friend's offer to try his Dish Network next month when we visit -- I'm bringing a PentiumII 400Mhz graphics system with me and will be doing some imaging stuff and real-time games at his place over it to kick the tires. BTW - you can keep the birds away from the guywires with a few plastic ribbons - 'course your neighbors may object to all those streamers flapping around. <g> xDSL though is a big deal to the LEC's I talk to - think about that massive investment in the copper - just waiting to be harvested. Again, though, the problems are localized; I don't see "universal highspeed service" anywhere on the horizon if you're tied to a phone company. If you're lucky enough to be in a new area, you have a good chance. Mr. K.