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> These days, any business that uses personal computers
> and has more than a dozen-or-so employees can surely
> justify the cost of a T1 connection (or at least a
> partial T1) into a 100MB/s LAN.
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> A smaller company (single-proprietorships, etc.) can
> hardly fail to justify AT LEAST 56k modems, given
> that the ROI break-even is about three days, at
> today's prices.
True, but is justification an issue? For many people, something that
still works as well as it always has doesn't need replacing. Not
everyone lives on the borders of geekdom. For many people, a
computer or a periphals are just a tool; until it breaks, people
don't think about it.
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Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
Contributing Editor, Maximum Linux
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