broadband peril

[Jason Brown]

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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