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Subject: Broadband Vs Dial-up..................No contest!

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Dave P.

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Date Posted: 21:40:57 04/28/05 Thu

Chris Dunham, I'm surprised to learn you only have a dial-up connection to your ISP. I have had broadband from day one and I'm bound to say there just isn't any competition. You say your download from ZoneAlarm took 25 mins! well I too downloaded my upgrade last night and it took less than 2mins. from start to finish. Including reconfiguring because I took the ZoneAlarm Pro, 15 day trial version, it took just 8 mins or so. I must recommend broadband to anyone taking this medium seriously. Particularly with so many ways of getting it now and so many cheap offers going around. Just bare in mind, that with an 'always-on' system, the need for security vigilance is paramount.

While I'm singing the praises of broadband, can I also recommend Opera (free!) as a browser. Compared to Windose Internet Explorer, it is blisteringly fast and ten times more secure. You can 'import' all your I.E. favourites with just a couple of clicks of the mouse, so there's no need to spend hours reconfiguring or changing your browser habits. Also with the latest version, 8, you get to play with voice activated operation. Provided you have speakers and a mic attached, of course. I've only mastered a few of the commands at the moment, there are hundreds, but it is getting more like '2001 - A Space Odyssey' every day (except my P.C. isn't called 'Al'). OK, lecture over but, seriously Chris (and anyone else out there), if you can afford it and it's available in your area? Get it! I promise you your on-line experience will be so much better.

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