Eric Ooms was whinging to All about www speed.

 EO> I happened to be reading a computer magazine when I saw an article on
 EO> the "Information Super-Highway". As the article correctly suggested
 EO> there is no way the WWW could be called the "Information super
 EO> Highway" It's much more like an "Information Super Footpath".
 EO> According to the article - even if you have a 28.8 modem, at peak
 EO> hour you may recieve files at 300bps. The article continued it
 EO> correctly state that there was not enough DIRECT links across the
 EO> world - especially to USA. 

Okay, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know a lot about the
Internet, but I have picked up a few things along the way.  Since Tel$tra
bought out AARNet (our main gateway out of Australia), the inet has started
to collapse under it's own weight.  Tel$tra simple aren't expanding their
services enough to cope with the demand.  Fortunetly, several ISPs have
started to set up their own links.  There are two servers in WA that I know
of who have done this and the performance has improved dramatically.

I know a lot of servers also force users down to only 14.4k so they can get
more users onto their limited bandwidth.

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