Dave Raymond wrote in a message to Bob Juge:
DB>> Hmmm... considering by the mid-1998, I should be hooked up to
DB>> ADSL with 6mbps/640kbps, I find an announcement about
DB>> 1Mbps/128kbps to be cold pancakes and no honey.  It'll cost
DB>> around $60 per month plus needing a NIC card.
BJ> That's what the phone company will charge.  The ISP charge for that
BJ> kind of bandwidth will be staggering.  :-(
 DR> Personally, I'm using a cable modem, hooked to a 10mbps EtherNet
 DR> card. Costs about $60.00 p/mth total.  This isn't too bad, when you
 DR> consider that most folks who are on line a lot have a separate
 DR> phone line. Let's say this line on average is $15.00 - $20.00
 DR> p/mth.  Then add the typical $20.00 p/mth InterNet account fee. 
 DR> The $60.00 I pay includes the InterNet account.  It's not that big
 DR> of a difference, to have the performance.  As an example, I sucked
 DR> down IE 4.0 (24.5 Meg) in less than 3 minutes.  I'll pay the extra
 DR> $20.00 - $25.00. :)
If you're lucky enough to have a modern cable company that offers this, it's 
definitely the way to go.  However, if you happen to live in a neighborhood 
that fills up with cable modem surfers, your performance will decrease as 
more come online, as all are sharing the same finite bandwidth over the 
common cable.
xDSL is a nailed-down dedicated line with bandwidth that's fixed and 100% 
exclusively yours 24 hours a day.  That's why it's more expensive.  :-)
                                   - Bob
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