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To: Annette who wrote (15810)	5/8/1999 12:36:00 AM
From: gridiron 99	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 41369

When you order DSL, you'll get it in 4 to 5 working days. When you order cable modem, you'll get it in 3 to 4 WEEKS. With DSL, you'll have a long list of ISP's offering DSL connection that you can choose from, from those small local ISP's to big name like AOL (coming to a neighborhood near you this summer) With cable modem, your choice of ISP's is limited, mostly with AtHome. I have heard their contents and graphic are terrible.

To: Annette who wrote (15810)	5/8/1999 12:37:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

Annette, Cable is two way always one shared net access. There is no need for Copper POT (Plain Old Telephone)when you have Cable access. The only Hybrid system that I have seen is Satellite, which uses POT for uploading and the dish for downloading.

To: Annette who wrote (15810)	5/8/1999 1:37:00 AM
From: Jing Qian	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 41369

As a @Home subscriber, I can tell you cable access is completely and absolutely phone line FREE. It requires no dialing and checking password. It's always on, 24 hours a day. And it's lightening fast. The average speed is about 1Mbps, about 50 times faster than regular dialup access. You will never experience anything like timing out on a download or being disconnected due to long idle times. With the increased speed, you can now go to www.broadcast.com to watch movies and video clips like watching a TV. Never possible with AOL's slow speed. Sooner or later, this "Color" Internet will replace the AOL's text laden "Black&White" Internet. Before the advent of Color TV, Black and White TV was dominant. But you can't argue that the popularity of B&W TV would keep the coming of Color TV. The reason DSL will be more difficult to fly is for the following reason: 1) DSL is inherently more costly to deploy. The equipment cost more than Cable. 2) Cable's throughput is higher than DSL's. 3) DSL suffers from the 1.8 mile proximity requirement. 4) RBOCs are not commited to roll it out.

To: Annette who wrote (15810)	5/8/1999 8:00:00 AM
From: robert duke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

For now they are. Heck and if the stock price doesn't do anything for a month and in a few months AOL comes out with awesome earnings it will be back to the highs again.