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Subject: Re: hackers-digest V1 #986
To: alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball)
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From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
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Tony Kimball writes:
>    From: <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
> 
>    BTW: I am looking around for ADSL modems anyone knows where I can
>    get two cheap ones!
> 
> PairGain claims their 2d generation models will be out in June/July
> "between $600 and $1000".  This is the "Etherphone" model.  With two
> of these and a dry pair, I should get 4Mb/s downloads and 640Kb/s 
> uploads through my ISP.

What is ADSL?  This is the first time I've heard of it.  Are the
speeds you mention without compression?
 
> ISDN is obsolete.

Is ADSL available everywhere?  Does every ISP who supports ISDN also
support ADSL?  Can you use it for telephones and faxes?  If not, you
can't make that claim.

Greg