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Have you considered Starband? www.starband.com
A recently upgraded sattelite internet service.
Ted
At 06:11 AM 02/15/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Actually, I thought it was a pretty valid question. I live in the SF Bay
>Area, not Bulgaria, in a very remote canyon. No cable, too far for DSL and
>the number of phone lines available to my home is maxed out. I too would
>love to hear of new alternatives. Not everyone lives in downtown USA.
>
>William
>
> >
> > Wow! I don't mean to be insulting or anything but do you have indoor
> > plumbing? Have you heard the latest fad? Movies with "talking!" (Just
> > teasing you :) Being a lifelong technophile I can't imagine anyone on less
> > bandwidth than DSL except my mom and Bulgaria.
> >
> > Try this: Write a paragraph of what you want to do this weekend and read
>it
> > to your partner, dog, mirror whatever. But read only one word at a time
> > every 8 seconds. Then, read it as fast as you can or better yet, just hold
> > it up in front of the dog's nose. Method 1 is your bandwidth. Method 2 is
> > DSL. I have quad-T1 lines at work connected to the backbone. Several grand
> > a month and other than the government, one of the fastest connections
> > around. I have DSL at home for $50 a month. I have a hard time telling the
> > difference between the two. Of course work allows 100 people at a time but
> > at home, I surf on two computers with multiple browser windows and talk on
> > the phone all at the same time while in the background I'm listening to
> > free internet Baroque music on Spinner.com. And I've got an old Dell
>laptop
> > and a no-name desktop.
> >
> > The Fat Lady sang and already went home to bed.
> > Try it. You'll like it!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Snap ."
> > <snapp33@xxxx To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > ail.com> cc:
> > Subject: Off Topic: No DSL or
>Cable??
> > 02/15/2001
> > 06:06 AM
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I would like to know the following from the group.
> > I dont have cable or DSL and am still in the ancient 56K status...has
> > anyone
> > ventured into other fast bandwidth modes and how has it been?
> >
> > Thanks, snapp
> >
> >
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> >
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