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Re: DSL/Christmas difficulty

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From: Bruce and Jeanne
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:38
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Check out your cable company (if you have one) if they are upgrading
or have upgraded their cables and offer cable modems.

Jeanne

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:39:43 -0800, David Keverman
<JQ3lynx@fancemail.NOTcom> wrote:

>I'm in an unusual position this year.  We've just moved to a new home, 
>and one of the things I wanted to do for my family was DSL.  Turns out no 
>one can get it here by Christmas.  I'm now in the bind of having a new 
>computer for my kids, no online connection, and a whiz kid in the family 
>who's already looking forward to the arduous process of reloading all his 
>software, copying his files, and just generally making this new machine 
>run like a hot rod -- on DSL!
>
>Is there a last minute fix for this?  Anybody know of a secret way to get 
>DSL faster?  And if I just have to set up a regular email account, who's 
>considered a great ISP right now?   We use mindspring at work, but I 
>don't know how prices compare for the others.
>
>Thanks.
>Dave
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From: bridgmanyang@annpolis.net (Bruce and Jeanne)
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Subject: Re: DSL/Christmas difficulty
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:38:05 GMT
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