Word: modems
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...Replay show swapping is painfully slow. Software engineer Thomas Wagner, 32, who has three Replay boxes at home, says it took him eight hours to get a half-hour episode of the now defunct show The Tick from another user, even though he has a high-speed cable modem. But he figures all that will change as the technology improves...
...Pressplay is a little less draconian. For $24.95 a month you get 100 downloads, and the tunes don't expire as long as you remain a subscriber. You also get to burn 20 tracks onto a CD. Downloads are especially efficient: mere seconds on broadband and minutes via modem. This was refreshing after all the transfer errors I'm used to on Morpheus and its underground kin. Now all Pressplay needs is a catalog large enough that I might want 20 songs a month from...
...Replay show swapping is painfully slow. Software engineer Thomas Wagner, 32, who has three Replay boxes at home, says it took him eight hours to get a half-hour episode of the now defunct show The Tick from another user, even though he has a high-speed cable modem. But he figures all that will change as the technology improves...
...form of wireless Internet access known to techies as "3G," for "third generation." The $30-a-month service (Verizon calls it the Express Network) will send data to PCs with special wireless cards, and even to some cell phones, more than twice as fast as an ordinary 56K modem...
...Diego is no computer geek--she designs and knits sweaters for a living--but when she ordered broadband Internet access, she thought she had done her homework. She talked to her friends and the employees at a local CompUSA store to figure out which kind of service--cable modem, digital subscriber line or satellite--made the most sense. But when she finally made the call, she was plunged into a netherworld of bureaucracy. Charges appeared on her phone bill even before she had officially ordered DSL, just for having asked about it. The company from which she ordered...