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There's high speed, and then there's high speed

I've had an ADSL high-speed Internet connection since 1998, and I'm profoundly addicted to it. I've never switched to cable modem service, despite attractive offers from my local cable company, because something about the way the cable network works struck me as not quite right, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

Then the fine people at the O'Reilly Network (via Doc Searls) cleared things up for me, noting that "cable modems, wonderful as they are for what they offer, distort the market for Internet access." Read more of Andy Oram's article to find out why.

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