Re: High speed Internet choices for Plano, Tx

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From: Loge
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:00

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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:57:48 -0600, jack@cybermail.net (Jack Snodgrass)
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>I use my 768K ADSL Link to run a web server. You can't do that with
>a cable modem. I fail to see why anyone would do ISDN instead of 
>ADSL for a dedicated link. Also... I trust GTE 1000 times more to 
>keep my ADSL link up than I do the cable company. GTE kept my 64K 
>ISDN link up for 30+ days at a time. You ever go 30 days without 
>a cable interruption? 

Yes, and I've also heard they've lowered the upstream on cable to 128K
instead of the 768K when I had it.  But as far as reliability, my
cablemodem only went out once or twice during the 6 months that I had
it, and then only for an hour or so.

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From: loge@hades.org (Loge)
Subject: Re: High speed Internet choices for Plano, Tx
Date: 1999/01/08
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