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amusing stories abound for the bi-directional cable modem trials. Best one
so far is the guy who was using his cable to run power to his tv set. 
needless to say cable companies will have a bit of work to do before they
turn on bidirectional cable for real! It will be a while before this type
of problem is resolved. 

But, don't knock uni-directional techniques. I've
been using DirecPC off and on and boy is that download speed nice. I can
live with an asymmetric world for a while. 

ron

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