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Subject: Re: dsl vs. cable

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 21:46:24 03/29/01

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On March 30, 2001 at 00:03:57, K. Burcham wrote:

>if you have cable----can you tell me some of your pros and cons.

I have cable, it's not as fast as they claim it is, but download times can be
pretty darn good.  My cable service has the worlds WORST newsgroup service.

>if you have dsl------can you tell me some of your pros and cons.

Ask Jeroen, I don't think his company is very good, but when it works I think he
says it's pretty darn good.

>which is faster and more dependable for online gaming?

Don't know.

>i have heard that cable gets slow in the evening and on weekends when the
>traffic is higher? how much slower? is this true for you?

True, when there's a lot of traffic it gets too slow.

If you get cable, make sure you get a firewall, ZoneAlarm has a free download.
If you don't get a firewall, people try to hack into your harddrive, not safe,
you really do need the firewall.

Pete



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