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Hello Bill - 

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BB> The broadband speeds start at 128 Kbps at about four times
BB> the price of dial-up, and you have been consistently
BB> considering something about eight times faster than that,
BB> so really you were comparing apples with oranges. You do
BB> realise that 128 Kbps is less than three times as fast as
BB> dial-up? Yours of course is about 600 times faster, but as
BB> I said, I don't need that speed. 

Few people seem to feel the need for broadband when not at work
and even there it is not as wide-spread as people think it is.
In the USA only about 7% of all PC users have broadband
connections. The high rates being discussed re:USA are when at
work, not when at home. 

I have just connected to broadband because it is useful for the
occasional work that I do to be able to download entire
websites and upload many megabytes of files via FTP. 

A recent project, to stream MPG video, now requires that I
connect using dialup to test the feasibility of offering this
streaming video to dialup users as well as broadband users. I
don't do statistical reverse calculations and then _assume_ it
will work - I actually test it with multiple browsers that I
have installed on my less than bleeding-edge machine here. ;-) 

BB> In fact the very concept of blame is foreign to rational
BB> decision making because it is entirely emotive. 

I enjoy the blame-game when among friends and no harm is done.
It adds another dimension that is lacking without it. Not
unlike the infamous excuse "The sun was in my eyes", we all
have our favorite methods of ducking the 'blame' when things do
not work out as we had anticipated. :-) 

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