-=> Quoting Peter Harle to Jason Louie <=-



 JL> I believe though that modems will not be fast enough and cable modems

 JL> are a better answer and a more cost effective answer than ISDN when

 JL> surfing the net

 JL> My ISP, when connected to the U.S is so slow, a 1MB file takes 20 min,

 JL> on a bbs it only takes 5-6 minutes at 28800, but I guess there are

 JL> thousands of others connected to the web site where as bbs the users

 JL> connected are less.



     G'day Jason,



     Our INTERNET access at work is via ISDN, I'm not sure but someone said

     it's data rate is around 64k, I've transferred files at an average

     speed of around 5k/second although that does fluctuate to as low as

     1.2k/sec, depending on system usage.



 JL> So mate tell me, are you a member of the Sydney PC User's Group ? is

 JL> it good?



     Yes, and have been for several years. I believe it's one of the best

     around. Choice of 3 BBS from my area for the price of a local call. I

     mainly use the PCUGMAIL BBS for FidoNet Echomail and current Shareware

     programs. Other benefits are monthly meetings of Special Interest

     Groups (SIG) in most areas of interest, great if you need to know

     about setting up modems etc. (sponsored by Netcomm amongst others).



     Cheers, Peter H.







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