I had to keep my cable connection. Somehow, the cable company must have known. Addictive qualities of fast Internet access is worse than nicotine. And there's no patch to help me give up the habit. But the story has a happy ending.
Life is good.
Just the Facts In Pasadena, California, cable modem Internet access is provided through a joint venture between Earthlink, an Internet service provider based in Pasadena, and Charter Communications, the cable company for the Pasadena area. Pasadena was chosen as a beta-test city because of its economic diversity and strong residential base, plus a variety of businesses, hospitals, libraries, universities, etc. Cable access became fully commercially available on August 1st. The variation depends on the equipment used by the cable television company. Cable modem connections require an Ethernet card and an external cable modem about twice the size of a standard external telephone modem.