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Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:33:45 PDT7
From:	jbrush@aros.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Thinkpad Choices

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In <415C4942.26960A2D@pacbell.net>, on 09/30/04 at 09:59 AM,
"J. R. Fox" said:

>There may be a very infrequent need for dial-up these days, but when you need
>it, you really need it.

Uhhh.... Huge numbers of us are still dial-up only. The reasons range from no
available high speed access, to just riduculous amounts of money for
broadband. I have five computers in my house, and they all dial-up. Comcast
calls every week, and offers their $50 a month broadband, but I don't have the
cash to buy the networking for all those computers, and if I get their
broadband, I get this tiny little block of time for dialup, so I have to
either network all the PCs to the broadband, since I will lose any dialup
access, or else I just get along at 53K. Guess which way I have to go? :-)

Don't go 'round thinking everyone is broadband. I can only speculate, but I am
guessing that at home, more than half the net users are still dialing a modem
to get on.

Just wanted to point that out. I must hate dialup more than I thought, but I
am stuck with it and no hope for the future. :-)

John

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