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...need is a 28.8K modem or better, an Internet connection and a free, downloadable player for streaming audio - I use RealPlayer because it's compatible with my iMac and most radio sites - and you can wander the world as you wander the Web. I have a DSL connection, but sometimes I log on via AOL through my telephone line, a route I especially recommend during the dinner hour. You can eat along with, say, the moody jazz and classical music of The Blue of the Night, which airs from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dublin time on Ireland...
...example, a dial-up modem that connects to the Net over copper has a typical download speed of 56 kilobits--or 56,000 bits--per second, at which rate it would take nearly 10 minutes to download a three-minute song. By contrast, a modem connected to a TV cable that feeds into a fiber-optic loop could claim that tune in under a minute. Yet even today only about 6% of U.S. households have cable modems or digital subscriber lines, which carry compressed data over copper wires at broadband speed. But that hasn't stopped carriers from blanketing...
...consumers. Tellme and Shoptalk are helping Jiffy Lube send automated phone alerts to customers when it's time for an oil change, and CNet Auctions is working with NotifyMe Networks to call users if their online bid has been trumped--and let them raise it without firing up a modem...
...single 100mbps (megabits-per-second) pipe. Each of the network's 12,000 connections shares this bandwidth. Says Vernal: "If one-third of the undergraduate population was using the FAS network at the same time, each student would be connected at the speed of a 56.6kbps modem." That's the connection speed you'd expect of your mom's AOL connection, not of a prestigious academic institution...
...then, morally snug, that I made the fateful decision to get what we now all fully recognize as the tools of El Diablo himself, a cable modem and a good set of computer speakers. And thus was I led into temptation...