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To: Ron McKinnon who wrote (16902)	10/25/1998 8:27:00 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53068

Check with Anthony Wong on the PFE thread. He and others there know all there is to know! Poet

To: Ron McKinnon who wrote (16902)	10/25/1998 11:40:00 PM
From: Larry S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53068

Ben - Franklin Resources, down 3 on friday, very interesting chart pattern, could be nice short term play. larrry

To: Ron McKinnon who wrote (16902)	10/27/1998 1:58:00 AM
From: Johnathan C. Doe	Respond to of 53068

Tue Oct 27 1:20am ET - U.S. Markets Closed. Symbol Last Trade Change Volume More Info Shrs Paid Gain Value ADCT 4:01PM 23 1/16 +2 +9.50% 1,355,900 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs Profile , Research , Insider 300 28.875 -$1,743.75 $6,918.75 PAIR 3:59PM 8 7/8 +1/16 +0.71% 1,106,100 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs Profile , Research , Insider 4,000 9.384375 -$2,037.50 $35,500.00 PRLS 3:59PM 6 3/4 +1/8 +1.89% 154,100 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs Profile , Research , Insider 5,000 6.875 -$625.00 $33,750.00 RMDY 3:57PM 10 +7/16 +4.58% 638,700 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs Profile , Research , Insider 1,600 13.3671875 -$5,387.50 $16,000.00 VLSI 4:00PM 9 21/32 +1/32 +0.32% 664,700 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs Profile , Research , Insider 300 13.125 -$1,040.62 $2,896.88 VNTV 3:57PM 7 7/16 0 0.00% 413,800 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs Profile , Research , Insider 3,600 8.65625 -$4,387.50 $26,775.00 VRLK 3:50PM 4 1/2 +1/2 +12.50% 162,700 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs Profile , Research , Insider 3,000 5.00 -$1,500.00 $13,500.00 VRTL 3:53PM 2 3/16 +3/16 +9.38% 142,600 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs Profile , Insider 12,000 2.69270833 -$6,062.50 $26,250.00 WSTL 3:58PM 4 +1/32 +0.79% 105,100 Chart , News , SEC , Msgs Profile , Research , Insider 1,600 7.54625 -$5,674.00 $6,400.00 9 symbols Totals: -$28,458.37 $167,990.62 Add: $500 from LARS trade; $612.50 from VLSI trade; $1000.00 from PROX trade;$1525.00 from ADCT trade; $0.00 ADPT; -$100.00 HLIT; $175.00 ORTL; $1625.00 QWST; $2400 from AFCI; $712.50 from MRVC; -$31.25 from ADPT; $100 from CREAF; $2000 from WDC; $450 from AMAT; $437.50 from VTEL; $775.00 from SAWS; $1900.00 from WSTL; $562.20 from CUBE, $1150 from PROX; -$1500.00 WSTL; -$2625.00 AWRE; $562.50 VST; $2100.00 AFCI; $1062.50 JBL; $7500.00 PRLS; $4900.00 RMDY; $525.00 CUBE; $5562.50 AWRE; $87.50 CHKPF; $$1325.00 MRVC; $8437.50 AFCI. Equals $53,714.62 total profits taken. exchange2000.com exchange2000.com

To: Ron McKinnon who wrote (16902)	10/27/1998 8:37:00 AM
From: Larry S.	Respond to of 53068

MUEI - with all the movement in the box makers, MUEI looking very attractive. Also RII has been moving nice, larry

To: Ron McKinnon who wrote (16902)	10/27/1998 5:05:00 PM
From: Johnathan C. Doe	Respond to of 53068

You might want to take a look at today's PAIR press release and then read this: Tech industry approves high-speed Net access rules By Chris Oakes and Sean Donahue SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - The International Telecommunication Union settled on a standard for a technology that promises to deliver significantly improved access speeds over regular telephone lines by mid-year next year. The Union Thursday gave its final OK to a set of technical specifications for ''DSL lite,'' a flavor of high-speed Internet data delivery known as Digital Subscriber Line. With a speed limit of 1.5 Mbps, DSL lite-also known as g.lite-is 30 times as fast as today's 56-Kbps modems. ''The ITU voted to determine the standard for DSL lite,'' said John Goldman, communications manager of regional phone company BellSouth. ''Barring some terrible flaw in the spec... manufacturers can now begin production of equipment that's compatible with it.'' While it's good news for the advancement of the technology, Goldman cautioned consumers not to expect instant nationwide availability. ''There's going to be a lag time. ADSL lite is not going to be in any type of general deployment before mid-year 1999.'' It will take that long before equipment is out in sufficient numbers, he said. Though the consumer-friendly DSL lite is trailing behind increasingly available cable modems on the adoption curve, experts say that it may quickly gain the upper hand. This is because existing DSL technologies, including standard ADSL, require more than just a modem purchase by users. They also require the phone company to ''roll a truck'' and install equipment at the customer's residence. ''It's definitely going to speed up deployment,'' said Claudia Bacco, senior DSL analyst with telecommunications consulting firm Telechoice. ''All the vendors are waiting to launch new products. This is like someone pulled a gun and said 'go.' A lot of service providers have been slow to deploy g.lite, because they want to make sure its right thing to deploy in the long term.'' Goldman's BellSouth, which will sell DSL lite service to third-party Internet service providers for resale to end-users, expects to price the service at US$30-$45 per month. That will translate to about $50 per month for consumers. It's about twice the rate of current Internet access cost, but 30 times as fast, Goldman said. While some ISPs and phone companies are providing DSL services already, the news makes a purchase much less risky. Currently, different manufacturers make slightly different versions of the DSL lite equipment in various parts of the country. ''If you are in Denver or Atlanta you should be able to use the same equipment,'' said Goldman. ''If you're using a laptop with an ADSL modem inside, you want to make sure it will work when you take that laptop to Atlanta.'' Competition and other uncertainties While the phone companies rally behind DSL lite, the cable companies have already made their own high-speed modems available to customers, using the cable TV infrastructure to deliver even faster high-speed access. Bacco thinks cable will always have an edge over phone-line based technology such as DSL lite. ''DSL is better suited for business users, and cable modem's cost and technology is better suited for $19.95 Web surfers, until DSL becomes like analog modems in terms of ease and cost,'' he said. Meanwhile, Bacco also thinks unanswered technical questions about DSL lite leave open the possibility that telcos will need to roll trucks to residences to make the system work. This adds to the cost of deployment. ''The thought was you could buy a g.lite modem, take it home, plug it in, and it works. We don't know how true that is.'' Bacco said some DSL modems still require the installation of a filter that would block anything else other than low frequency traffic from coming out of a jack. While DSL lite may not require special equipment where a phone lines meets a house, the need for filters on some products show that there is potentially an issue of electrical interference issues arising once people begin using the service. Bacco thinks that to succeed, consumers must be able to hook up DSL modems without a hitch. ''Joe Web surfer has to open up his PC and install different components. It needs to be made very easy and transparent like analog modem.'' Meanwhile, Goldman said to expect plenty of announcements by manufacturers conducting tests to make sure their equipment is fully compatible. This testing can begin right away thanks to the standard. (Reuters/Wired)