[techtalk] High speed access -- pros and cons

[Walt]

At 03:44 PM 10/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Holy moly, $800 for setup... I guess if that's what it takes to get cable 
>in a rural area.  I also didn'tknow that youc ould get cable connections 
>at 512k both ways... mine goes extremely fast for dl, and is something 

Clarification: $200 install, $600 modem (not that that's cheap!)
Also, I've gotten speeds (twice (jk) :-) of 70-80k per sec. 60k is
not at all uncommon.

Upload speed is very nice! (and important as we do some off-site
websites and currently host a test site)


Walt

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