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To: bill meehan who wrote (30206)	4/5/1999 9:13:00 AM
From: accountclosed	Respond to of 86076

@home high speed access is a myth :-)

To: bill meehan who wrote (30206)	4/5/1999 9:41:00 AM
From: TheStockFairy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

Bill, There is a program that I use to diagnose internet connection problems and to check on my speed. I have run this on my brother's @home connection, and it shows that he can get downloads at about 1 meg. Anyway, it's called net medic...there is a free trial. vitalsigns.com So instead of guessing at what speed you can download...you'll know. TSF

To: bill meehan who wrote (30206)	4/5/1999 10:04:00 AM
From: Mama Bear	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

"I've noticed that the service isn't much faster than a modem in the evening, and nowhere near as fast as advertised any time of the day. " Bill, how can you quantify this? I have both dial up service through a V.90 modem and @Home, and I dread the times that the cable goes down because the modem is so much slower. Perhaps the difference is that I'm in a relatively undersubscribed area? Barb

To: bill meehan who wrote (30206)	4/5/1999 11:23:00 AM
From: KLAW97	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86076

ATHM will take 3% of AOL's subscribers every year. ATHM is the future gorilla and YHOO agrees. <<< Still, Yahoo's acquisition of Broadcast.com won't immediately benefit the company. The deal is really more about tomorrow than about today. Since most online households don't have high-speed access right now, most consumers won't benefit much from the capabilities that Broadcast.com's technology brings to the table. But that's expected to change over the next several years, as cable lines and satellite dishes begin to reach more and more consumers. Today only five percent of households have the ability to receive streaming video and audio. The number is expected to reach 12 percent next year and 20-25 percent in 2003, according to projections from Forrester Research, a Boston company that tracks Internet trends. >>> fnews.yahoo.com