[geeks] Cable vs DSL; Current state of the TV industry

[Brian]

I like using www.dslreports.com to see whats available for me, only neg is a
lot of the worldcom 1.5/768 offers dont show up.

    Bri

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Van Damme" <frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be>
To: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 6:15 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Cable vs DSL; Current state of the TV industry


> On Friday 24 January 2003 14:51, David L Kindred (Dave) wrote:
> > I've finally gotten off of my over-sized posterior and should be moving
> > into a new (for me) apartment next week.  Now for the hard decisions!
> >
> >    Should I go with Cable or DSL for 'net access?
>
> All provider suck... maybe yours sucks just a bit less.
>
> > Since I assume a few of you have been through this already, what are
> > your favorite resources for researching this?
>
> Just go for the cheapest, they all suck :-)
>
> except some has a bigger monthly max. volume.
>
> >   Should I start borrowing old machines from Work?
>
> No.
>
> > Do I really want to start down the path so many of you have followed and
> > start building a massive home network from antiquated computers?  Or
> > just stick to my windows laptop and spend my evenings researching the
> > diversity of the female form?
>
> You JUST DON'T ask that to a mailing list full of computer nerds do you?
>
> >   What is the right balance between cost/features for today's Television
> >   Sets?
> >
> > I remember a discussion here a little bit back on some of this, but I
> > wasn't in the market then.  The real question in my mind is "how much
> > better is a $2000 TV than a $1000 TV than a $500 TV".
>
>
>
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> Frank Van Damme
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