[ale] Not so evil empire

[mo9916 at numail.org (Jim Moore)]

This was a timely post in that yesterday went looking at Best Buy for a 
new cable modem.  Have been using a Linksys which keeps losing the 
connection.  Oh well the thing's more than five years old and was a hand 
me down from my brother in law.

So some questions:
The Motorola SB5101 lists speeds of 38M down and 30M up.  Pray tell what 
kind of service gives those speeds?
Second question: I went to cable service when we recently moved and 
could no longer get satellite TV (heavily wooded lot).  So did a bundle, 
TV, internet and phone.  Opinions on cable phone service - good?, bad?
I guess any phone service is better than none.  Phone went out last Thur 
afternoon and ATT service is scheduled to have it repaired by six this 
afternoon. 

Jim Moore