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Um, is this tongue in cheek, or are you being seri...

2005-11-30T05:25:00.000-05:00

Um, is this tongue in cheek, or are you being serious? I suppose there are people who still have to use dial up, just as they may have to use an old 68k Mac. But anyone who has a chance to use a G5 or broadband would never willingly go back. Apple doesn't need to convince anyone that broadband is great -- it's too obvious!

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan

Broadband Tuner merely tweaks the settings of thre...

2005-11-29T21:39:00.000-05:00

Broadband Tuner merely tweaks the settings of three network parameters inside the Mac OS X kernel -- something anyone who has a little bit of experience with going 'under the hood' can do.

The problem is simple: The TCP/IP network stack in OS X is tuned for the best throughput on slow network connections, such as dialup or low-speed IDSL. On faster networks, OS X doesn't wring the

True! ...but as was done with the floppy, someone...

2005-11-29T21:14:00.000-05:00

True! ...but as was done with the floppy, someone has to lead the market. USB existed as a standard port for sometime before Windows started making use of it. The floppy is finally starting to be an option in many Windows systems. Apple now also includes BlueTooth by default. If no modem and "Consumer Primer 1.0" is the quid pro quo to having the technolgy we should have had 10 years ago,

Who would have thought that broadband is better.
2005-11-29T21:02:00.000-05:00
Who would have thought that broadband is better.

Why should I pay for a modem I will 99.5% of the time never use? I reserve .5% for Adelphia cable service.

Who would think they did this as a service to those customers using high-bandwidth, high latency connections. I have seen some fairly substantial increases with it, but not if I had a modem.

All true - plus with 50% broadband now and the fac...

2005-11-29T14:53:00.000-05:00

All true - plus with 50% broadband now and the fact in most places, broadband can be cheaper than dialup ... or very close (SBC $16.99 6 months - Earthlink DU $14.99 6 months), though I'm sure 70% is the max. The others will never give up :-)