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to: BRANDON BURCHFIELD
from: DAVID BOWERMAN
date: 1997-05-11 20:11:00
subject: MODEM SUCKS!

Brandon Burchfield wrote in a message to David Bowerman:
 BB> Can either of you guys give me info and where I could where to
 BB> purchase something of this sort. I would love to get a truly high
 BB> speed data connection. This seems liek a very economical choice. (I
 BB> believe it costs over a $1000US to get a T1 line from the telco,
 BB> and that is monthly cost too!) 
Cable modems are available from your local cable television company when/if 
they get around to supporting them.  One problem with cable modems is that 
your bandwidth is shared with all other users on the line.  That is, if they 
have 500Kbps bandwidth and 50 users, each user gets a massive 10kbps if all 
are on at once and transferring data.
I do have one friend who lives in an area where cable modems were undergoing 
a trial run.  When there was no one else on, they screamed.  When the system 
go loaded, it was worse than his 14k4 modem.
Regards,
       David
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