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To: JakeSki who wrote (8351)	4/21/1999 2:41:00 PM
From: radames	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29970

AOL IS CRAPPY i have it and can't stand it ,,i just use it because i have basically no choice because i travel alot and primarily use a lap top does anyone know how athm will cater to the business traveler with a laptop ?? ATHM long and strong ,,300$ by december when is it coming to new york???

To: JakeSki who wrote (8351)	4/21/1999 3:58:00 PM
From: RTev	Respond to of 29970

I am doing a little comparison shopping (DSL vs. @Home) for my parents. I was going to send this as a private message, but figure it's worth looking at the competition to ATHM, so... I use DSL from USWest mostly because @home isn't yet available in my neighborhood. It is more expensive than @home, but recent news reports indicate that USWest is about to lower the price as @home begins to offer more competition. (Here's a story from Sunday's Seattle Times that deals with issue: seattletimes.com ) On the cost, be sure to check their special-deal page. The modem, for instance, is now offered for $95. If you can put a 3Com net card into their computer, then you can save the installation charge, since that's the only vaguely complicated part of it and even that's pretty easy. Once the card is in the computer, installation is just a matter of plugging the phone line into the "modem" and plugging that into the computer with a network cable that they provide. That's it on the computer end. You also have to install a small filter onto each voice telephone in the house. But is it worth it? The $40 line is 256K. That's slower than the best speeds available from @home, but you're less likely to run into the slowdowns that some folks complain about with @home. You can choose your ISP with ADSL. That makes the sign-up process a bit more complex, but it lets you pick among different plans for the $20-ish part of the service. Some of the ISPs (USWest.net is one of them) will let you set up a simple in-house network -- something more dangerous and difficult if you use @home. I've used it since October and have found the network to be very reliable. I occasionally have to reboot the modem to get an IP address from my ISP, but have seen only two outages (for about 3 hours each time) on the DSL line itself. The disadvantages: You might not get the full 256K speed out of your connection. I don't. They blame it on the wiring in the old building I live in. Probably true, but it's still so much faster than a modem, and the always-on aspect is so convenient, that I figure it's worth it. Dealing with USWest is another problem. They disconnected my entire line for 5 days when trying to hook up DSL and couldn't figure out where the problem was (it was in the CO). Bottome line: When @home is finally available in my neighborhood, I'll probably switch because of the extra speed (usually) and lower cost. But I'll do so only if AT&T has changed the DBA name of the cable company since I vowed years ago never to write another check to "TCI". I've fiddled with rabbit ears for so long that I'm not about to write that check until I can send it to "AT&T Broadband".