Sprint Broadbands llag time can be a little long, but not enough to call it
a real negative. The day I had it installed, I did an ftp install of
debian for my firewall. I had download speeds of up to 145kb/sec, so I
cannot complain. The static ip is also nice.
Jason Brown
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000,
joel@silverw.com (Joel Dudley) wrote:
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:47:33 -0700
> To: <Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> From: joel@silverw.com (Joel Dudley)
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: broadband peril
>
> I am appealing to the list in hopes they may have information to
> eliminate my modem woes. Seems USwest can't decide if I am eligable for
> DSL (depends on who I talk to, different answer every time). Cox@home is
> unavailable. All that is left is sprint broadband (right??). now I know
> this topic has come up in the past, however I have one simple question.
> In contrast to a 56K dialup, is sprint broadband worth the cash?? Thanks
> for taking the time to read my message.
>
> - Joel
>
>
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> "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the
> story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he
> is
> about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final
> rock,
> he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for
> centuries."
>
> - Dr. Robert Jastrow
> Founder of NASA"s Goddard Institute for space studies
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