Word: 56k
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...sales tax; if shopping in the real world is your only option, you pay full whack. By 2004, there will also be a digital divide between 29 million households with super-fast broadband Internet access and the online equivalent of the middle class--those who still lumber along on 56K modems. Taken all together, these tiny, day-to-day advantages potentially add up to a class gap of Dickensian proportions...
Equipped with a built-in 56K modem, the 4-lb. Audrey lets you check all your news and mail offline by scheduling as many as five automated downloads a day. I loved rolling out of bed in the morning, reading the latest news and peeking ahead at a detailed, four-day weather forecast almost instantaneously--without the hum, whir, delay and bother of booting up my home...
...sell a stand-alone Net radio later this year that plugs directly into a phone line and requires no computer hookup, but it will cost three times as much, and you will have to have a broadband connection. (The Sonicbox system, by contrast, sounds great with a standard 56K modem...
...prime time because their service has slowed to a crawl. This, the ad said, is why you should instead get the superfast phone technology DSL (Digital Subscriber Line). For $40 or more a month, it's supposed to let you surf at around 30 times the speed of a 56K modem and talk on the phone at the same time...
...people freaking out on bad DSL trips right now. I can be thankful I haven't had my phone service knocked out, or lost days of work waiting for the technician to show up, or paid a premium for service that ended up being slower than 56K...