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Well, "poles" means poles in old neighborhoods, and underground wires in
new ones. Doesn't matter. The fiber doesn't come into the home was my
point, underground folks still have coax from their home to the road where
the fiber passes by. Something about coax can handle the traffic just
fine, but only for short distances is why they use fiber. Pretty
interesting stuff -- kinda makes you wonder why they all don't do it, eh?
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From: D Self[SMTP:dself1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Reply To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, November 13, 1998 2:09 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Reuters
Ditto prices and TW company here in Memphis but cable is underground; great
til you have a shovel-happy gardner;)
Linda
-----Original Message-----
From: David Walton <stocknet@xxxxxxx>
To: 'metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, November 13, 1998 1:08 PM
Subject: RE: Reuters
>Here in Akron, Ohio we have cable modems too. The local cable company,
>Time Warner, has strung fiber optic on the poles through the
neighborhoods,
>and the drop from the street pole into homes is regular coax cable just
>like what you put into your TV.
>
>Its unreal fast. 12MB downloads from MM (that's Monopolistic Microsoft)
>took 2.5 to 3 minutes. (Yeah, MINUTES). So go ahead and argue about
>shared bandwidth, argue about EXACTLY how fast its going, but get it if
you
>can. It costs 40$ per month here, and everybody pretty much justifies the
>extra 20$ (normal price for modem dial up service seems to run 19.95/mo)
by
>getting rid of the second phone line they had installed so you could voice
>and data at the same time.
>
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>From: Sean W. Smith[SMTP:sean_smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Reply To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 4:05 PM
>To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: Reuters
>
>Stan and all,
>
>They guarantee nothing. Why is everyone so concerned about shared
>bandwidth
>(Don't you realize that you share bandwidth with all the other users of
>your
>ISP when you use a modem). Data traffic is generally very bursty. Cable
>modems are the fastest way to access the internet today that an individual
>can afford. They are much faster the ADSL. If you have the ability to get
>one in your AREA then you would be foolish not to consider it. I
routinely
>see speeds of almost 3 Megabits per second transferring files from work
>with
>two DS-3's to cable modem subscribers.
>
>Sean
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stan Rubenstein
>> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 3:05 PM
>> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Reuters
>>
>>
>> I did my standard download of 180 stock updates without a
>> hitch. My experience over the past year with the Reuters
>> non-Internet connection has been excellent but we are being
>> warned by Reuters to move over to Internet retrieval. I'm
>> reluctant to do this since my experience is untroubled.
>> FYI
>> Stan Rubenstein
>> P.S. I did my download around 1800h ET 11/11/98
>>
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>> From: Linda Swope <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Reuters
>> Date: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 10:31 PM
>>
>> I've tried 3 times...error messages each time!
>> Bummer!
>> Linda
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Blue <billblue@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: MetaStock List <metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 8:36 PM
>> Subject: Reuters
>>
>>
>> I have been unable to download from Reuters tonight. Has
>> anyone else
>> been having a problem.
>>
>
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