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In article <Fw3478.Iv9@kithrup.com>, mrs@kithrup.com (Mike Stump) writes...
> In article <hyn-A774AF.20444309062000@news.rdc1.sfba.home.com>,
> poldy  <hyn@nospam.kfu.com> wrote:
> >All the Baby Bells are having problems with rolling out DSL.  In the 
> >west, where SBC is suppose to be one of the most aggressive deployers, 
> >there are outages and problems with the mail and newsgroup servers.
> >
> >Not that cable is much better.
> 
> I'd disagree.  @Home seems better than PacBell DSL.  Their email
> systems aren't on orbs, I don't see people complaining about the email
> service, news usually works fine.  Seems like there is a larger number
> of can't be completed DSL installs than can't be completed cable
> installs.


I think it's pretty clear that there's much less 
infrastructure gotchas amongst cable subscribers than
there is amongst potential DSL users.  The cable companies
already know that every subscriber can get a decent signal
up through ~800 Mhz (since if they didn't they wouldn't get
all the channels) whereas with POTS lines there are all 
sorts of unknown crappy wires hanging out of people's houses.

The other advantage of cable is that installation is almost
always much quicker than DSL.  Then again, you've got the
problem with neighborhood bandwidth and various other things..



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