[lug] one caveat on cable modems

Greg Holling gholling at rmi.net
Tue Feb 8 13:34:04 MST 2000


At 10:10 AM 2/8/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I forgot to mention that Athome limits the UPLOAD speed of the cable
modems to
>128 Kbits/second, which makes a cable modem unsuitable for heavy serving. 
>That, of course, is exactly why Athome put that limit on the cable modems -
>they'll probably make a "business" connection available which removes the
limit
>(and, coincidentally, costs much more).

They already did it.

It's called @work; costs about $100/mo.  (compared with $40/mo. for
@home).  They also provide a couple of email addresses & domain name
hosting, if I remember right.  It's not available everywhere in
the Denver area, but it's definitely in Lakewood.

- Greg

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