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To: stock_bull69 who wrote (16101)	5/9/1999 4:44:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

Glen, regardless of how my T1 connection at work is performing the point I was trying to make is that as my 28.8 modem works fine for me in SF using Pac Bell as my ISP the vast majority of people, like myself, have little inclination to switch to DSL or any other faster speeds to surf the net in the near future. Therefore AOL can take it's time getting into the high speed arena and let T and ATHM make all the headlines today. Steve, We agree that broadband is not an issue for AOL at present. I am also not concerned about it being an issue in the future meaning AOL will out an alliance that will work. Goog management had a tendency to do that. I was only trying to say that once one uses broadband, one gets spoiled compared to 28.8. The lion's share of people will not have used it for many years to come. I am going to digress a bit with another issue here. There are ISPs that are deploying DSL and or cable access on a small scale. Often the bottleneck is the ISP's connection to the main pipes of the net. A good example is my present cable assess ISP only had a T1 serving them but they were serving the area with cable. When one puts 100 accounts on the cable, the T1 is slowing everyone so that speed is slower than a 28.8. The ISP upgraded to a T3 but there are more accounts and my four workstations can use almost the entire T3 at one crack. The T3 connects to some pipes owned by Sprint in Erie PA. I do not know the size of those pipes. The problem compounds itself as the other ISPs connect to Sprint in Erie with other T3s. The local ISP needs to upgrade again to the next speed above a T3. This cycles and the entire world wide backbone needs expanded fifty fold at minimum to handle this. There are lots of issues here. 1. Servers limitations on speed due to processing itself and out going pipes. 2. Compounded need for more bandwidth on back bone pipes as broadband is deployed. 3. The issue of a caple loop having too many clients. Not an issue with me since I live in the country. 4. Compined costs of all these upgrades for broadband. Who will pay for it? With this in mind, I am staying long AOL, CSCO and T:-)))