Justin Zygmont wrote:

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote:

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If by bringing up phone lines you're meaning the old argument of cable being shared versus DSL not being shared then I don't agree that any distinction needs to be made in that respect ... either way you're connecting to the share network known as the Internet. Also, last I had Rogers, it appears that my cable connection was switched (I only saw my own traffic and broadcast traffic.

I see, that clears things up quite a bit.

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