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To: FreedomForAll who wrote (15944)	4/22/1999 3:46:00 PM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21342

I'm using @home cable modem and its great for speed, reliability and price. The phone companies have really messed up. Again I fully agree with you. Friends of mine are using roadrunner and I'm very jealous. I don't like the variablility in the speed due to the shared nature of the cable, but if I had it I wouldn't be complaining at this point where the best I have is 56K when I'm lucky. It would also take a lot to get me to change if I had something like roadrunner or @home. ADSL has its advantages, but if cable is the first to market they will steal a great deal of business that ADSL will find hard to woo back. If cable is the first in my neighborhood, they've got me and I'm an ADSL advocate. All the best, Michael

To: FreedomForAll who wrote (15944)	4/22/1999 3:49:00 PM
From: schlep	Respond to of 21342

For reference, i am using a MOT cybersurfer cable modem from Mediaone Illinois. I'll give them speed (1M downloads and ~300k uploads) and price ($40/month), but network relieability has not been nearly as good as their TV cable signal. i would say there are brief outages weekly. Overall, though i am quite happy about the 'instant'net access it gives me. However, it is still costing me ~$20 month to have my second phone line for faxes etc. So i am still waiting for Ameritech to off full DSL. Question is what price will it be to match the cablemodem speeds. schlep