iOpener Update

Yeah, but there are many places in the US where it is essentially illegal to hook your own cable descrambler to the cable line, not too much different than the old Bell System limits on third-party equipment hooked to phone lines. There are some attractions to cheap and uniform guaranteed service for all, but I don't think I want Internet access to become the monopoly that phone service used to be or cable service is today. It's bad enough with some ISP's threatening that they only support Microsoft Windows and that if you've got trouble accessing their service from any other OS you're out of luck. Actually DSL from some companies is already worse than that - you have to have a PCI-bus PC-clone running Windows to use their service, because the only interface device that will work requires that hardware configuration and the only drivers available are for MS-Windows. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927