A friend of mine is using Charter in Apple Valley. It is much faster than dial-up - but he is seeing 18KB/s downloads - which is far slower than what they advertised (I believe it was advertised as 400Kb/s ~= 40KB/s). He is getting less than 50%. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Perry Hoekstra <dutchman at uswest.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG:19294] DSL/Cable service > Ben Lutgens wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:33:05AM -0500, Jared Sprague wrote: > > >Hello, > > >Does anyone know of a highspeed internet provider that has service in Eagan? > > >I just moved there and both my cable(MediaOne) and phone(USWest) dont offer > > >service to my street yet. > > > > With DSL, the high spped phone line has to come from us west. IF your area > > isn't coverd you are out of luck. Unless this has changed and other telcos can > > offer DSL phone lines. > > Do you have a choice on cable? I live in Lakeville and Charter > Communications offer cable modems. > > -- > Perry Hoekstra > Consultant > Talent Software Services > dutchman at mn.uswest.net > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org