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You need to get connected.DSL at 3 miles radius isnt going to cut it. Fiber Optics is lighter and much faster than DSL and capable of reaching a farmhouse 180 miles in no where USA will be the item that gets the USA into online.I remember when Walthers and MR was the end all for product information as well as regular visits to the store to learn about new products. Today the internet can bring that information as soon as someone at a distributor or factory chooses to upload it.Yes the hobby has been improved. But also has become very focused as alot of items are researched and discarded from purchasing consideration before it even gets onto a hobby shop shelf.I hold up the MTH Triplex as a example. I learned about it here some days ago, after a few days and emails I learned enough information to decide that I dont want to buy the engine. My reason is focus on smoke devices which is a no-go and only two of three sets of drivers powered.The hobby shop might order one if at all. Only if there is some one to tell them "I want the Triplex" and makes the money availible for it.I would consider myself very lucky to even physically SEE a model of this Triplex in the hobby shop. I might see one at the next Trainshow either operating or being sold for a profit to someone who might not have internet and is unaware of the Triplex until he or she got into the trainshow building.Anyhow, just my thoughts. I do know that thanks to the internet, I dont have to call long distance or drive down there with lots of gas fighting traffic very much to get things done regularly and proper.
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