🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 17:19:12 GMT, "apone@apone.com" <apone@apone.com>
swung a leg over their bike, fired it to life, looked at me and
belched:

>>
>>Called the OuterNet network, the system will allow drivers to 
>>do everything from downloading a coupon for a free cup of coffee 
>>from the receipt printer on the pump to selecting MP3 and video 
>>files from the dispenser screen and downloading them wirelessly. 
>>The aim is to achieve this in the approximately 240 seconds 
>>that it takes the average gas tank to fill.
>>
>
>Let's get our priorities straight. How about putting more effort into
>getting high-speed internet access (DSL, cable modem, and wireless) to
>the vast number of "bandwidth challenged" homes before worrying about
>getting MP3's from gas pumps!
>
>I would be tickled pink just to be able to download an MP3 or video
>file in 240 seconds in my own home!


amen!  I've been waiting for DSL, Cable or *anything* higher speed
than a 56k modem for two years!  And I don't live in the boondocks
(Herndon/Reston area), but the local cable company (cox) is so damn
slow and changes the availability dates so often that by their own
admission, we were supposed to have had cable modem access the
summer of 1999!  And unfortunately, we're 1,000 yards too far to get
DSL...this truly sucks..



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