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Hi:
  looks like ATT is trying really hard to pitch the cosolidated
Mediaone TCI @Home cable modem service throughout Chicagoland. The
latest promo includes FREE installation and half price $19.95 for the
1st 6 months.   Previously, I lived in Lombard - Mediaone service,
average 500-900 KBps downstream, 200-300 upstream. Clearly after
reading through some of the 'downtime' postings on Usenet, I don't
expect similar performance outside of 3-5am CST.

I'm in the Mt Prospect area by the Ace Hardware on Busse and Golf.

1. Has anyone within the same node (Mt Prospect, Arlington Hts, Des
Plaines, Elk Grove) signed up recently, especially after the ATT
takeover?   Would really appreciate any anecdotal experience.
Traceroutes to tucows.revealed.net or download.com, or Neoworx/Visual
Route logs would be ever better.

2. What has the comparable DSL and DirectPC (if available) experience
been in the NW Suburbs?

3. How frequent is downtime? 8-12 hours a week? Any dial-up backup?
With Mediaone it was sporadic, once went 4 days without cable, had to
use their 28.8 dial-up server.

4. Now that TCI has capped uploads at 128KBps, how does that affect
running IIS5 or Apache?

Would love to hear from both 'happy' and 'disgruntled' broadband
afficionados.

Thank you.

Alex


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