> 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.

    2400 Baud was 20 times as fast as 110 Baud, but at the time that 2400
first came in, few people thought that the higher speed justified the
enormous cost of the faster device for personal use. Since I did not have
to pay for mine, I was one of the first users.

 > 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.

 > 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.

Best Wishes,
Bill.

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