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Technology Stocks : Qwest Communications (Q) (formerly QWST) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark Woolfson who wrote (3420)	4/15/1999 1:54:00 AM
From: randal sexton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

Interesting post about high(er) last mile band width on the East Coast. I meself have just converted my expensive ISDN line to a PACBELL er SBC DSL line. Why DSL vs. cable modem? - Dsl line AND ISP account costs 40$ month - cable modem thru our po-dunk cable co-op costs 70$ month - DSL bandwidht guaranteed to be 128/384 kbps - Cable modem bandwidth bad news stories abound here in silicon valley: due to huge cable modem shared pipe. ATHM customers complained that at 4 in the morning they got >500 kbps bandwidth, but in primetime they got less < 56 k. Too many people on the shared pipe, not enough switches? DSL gives guaranteed bandwidth. - DSL line gives me a static IP address, which thru a Linux IP masquerading firewall and hub I can get multiple surfing off of one line ( If I can figger out how to get it all working!) whereas with cable modem I get a dynamic IP which would make that harder (but probably still doable. The last mile bandwidth contest is in the first mile of a marathon. Too early to predict who will be eating whose lunch. Palo Alto now has a test of FIBER to the curb. Maybe in 2 years I'll be switching to that, or to sattelite, or to microwave, or to quantum computing smoke signals or whatever. -randy