From: Darin McBride 

On December 27, 2003 09:24 pm, Bill.Birrell!2.25.200.0{at}filegate.net wrote:
>  > Only twice as fast?  You have analog dial-up modems
>  > that can get 50kB/s?  I thought the fastest modems
>  > were 56kbps (aka 5.6kB/s) modems.
>  >  1Mb is 20 times that speed.
>
>     The modems may do 56 KBaud, but the lines are limited to 52 Kbaud. The
> highest true speed I have achieved with a V92 modem was 54.6 Kbps.

Ok, so that's 5.2 KB per second, or, basically, 5KB per second.  1Mb
high-speed is 100KB per second.  That's still 20 times the speed of
dial-up.

Of course, that still may not make it any more desirable - if 5KBps is
sufficient that its cost is appropriate to you, not my call to make ;-)

>  > Need and want aren't the same thing.  ;-)
>
>     They can be; they often are when I am paying. :-)
>
>  > No where am I saying that this necessarily
>  > applies to you - but if some of it may, then you may
>  > decide to think about things differently.
>
>     None of it applies. Internet for me is a convenience, like a telephone
> or teletext or a dishwasher or a motor car. I'd rather keep it that way.
> Using it more tends to make it a convenience for everybody else but me.
> That's also why my phone won't accept anonymous calls.

No cell phone either, huh?  :->

>  > Except, perhaps, your wife, if you're married.  :-)
>
>     Not guilty.
>
>     Thanks for taking the trouble to try to persuade me, Darin, but I don't
> think I am worth the effort. If I were to put a computer on the net as a
> server, things would be different, but as things are, I cannot justify the
> cost.

I'm not intending to persuade you.  Only ensuring that you realise that
what you were saying ("twice the speed") was incorrect.  And if
you were basing your decision on an incorrect statement, then you may be
pleased to know that it is, in fact, 10 times what you thought it was:
twenty times your speed.

If your decision to not pay for high-speed is based on more than the speed
differential, then it's no big deal.  Just don't blame the low speed
difference ;-)

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