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Hello Wayne - 

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>> 50,667 on this download. All I'm seeing anymore is 49333,
>> 50667 and 52000 with the lions share going to 50,667. 

CA>> Much better than anyone else I know. Very good. 

WC> I had to nag the phone company endlessly to get them to
WC> swap a noisy line, took 8 months and the old pair wouldn't
WC> support a 

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WC> and I'm pretty close to the phone company. It _can_ be done
WC> but stock up on tranquilizers and blood pressure medication
WC> before attempting to get the phone company to provide you
WC> with the service they promise. 

I would have a second phone line installed, complain if it had
static, then have the old line disconnected. :-) 

>> These software modems don't, in my case anyway, renegotiate
>> speed after the original connect. 

CA>> My all-hardware modems don't either. I tried to get fancy
CA>> with lots of switches to force fast connects but if the
CA>> ISP's modem won't negotiate you wind up with a 'no
CA>> connect' rather than a better one. I gave up. :-\ 

WC> I've had about a half dozen failures to connect on first
WC> try in the last month. If I get a 48K connect I now redial
WC> to get a better connection  

I've been having a terrible time trying to get either of my DOS
packet drivers to dialup and connect. They never were 100% but
now I'm having to try 7 or more times and it's really
frustrating since I have changed nothing. Obviously the ISP is
'tinkering' with their end. I wish they would hire competent
people, set it up, then LEAVE IT ALONE! 

>> Downloaded a 39.4 meg PDF last night in 2 hours 4 min. 

CA>> I usually expect 4 minutes per meg, you're 32 minutes
CA>> shorter than that. :-) 

>> Your steaming audio plays great in either format. 

CA>> Thanks. Any suggestions as to individual tunes that should
CA>> be altered, or music you expected to find there, or too
CA>> much of one particular type, etc. are always welcome. :-) 

WC> Rather too much on the plate to be a critic just now.
WC> Have't really listened to more than a couple tunes there
WC> yet. 

Sure. I was just 'letting you off the hook' if you had a
critique to offer. :-) 

WC> Really liked that old bluesy tune, Joplin?  

"Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin. That was put there as what I
think is one of the most recognizeable tunes I could find (it's
a favorite of my mother's too). It's a 'demo' tune to allow
average people to actually hear how resequencing can
drastically alter the original MIDI file. It begins in the
original written for two pianos and goes to a band then back to
the two pianos for the finish. People often think resequencing
makes little difference - it makes a HUGE difference when I do
it. ;-) 

Funny thing is that those music files that I expected to be
ignored as too simplistic or too old are the ones most people
seem to like best. "Dueling Banjos" is the all-time winner and
has been from the beginings of that webpage. DB is played 10x's
as often as any other music file there. 

WC> Multimedia with this new machine and the 56K line is a
WC> hoot. I downloaded a streaming video the other day and the
WC> video quality, if not the size of the image, was
WC> outstanding. Some 800K per second of buffered video and my
WC> it was quite impressive. 

I was impressed the first few times I saw video on a computer
(long ago), MPEG is quite old and I could get some to work on
my old '386 at 20mhz and full-screen too! Naturally I expected
better on newer/faster hardw re and it is better but not as
much as I had anticipated. I have been disappointed that more
serious uses haven't been easy to find. I assumed a
space-shuttle launch, some of the filming of astronauts doing
'space-walks' and other things not shown often on TV would be
out there. I mainly find very short movie trailers,
music-video, or x-rated video and not a great deal of what I
would've used it for. Right now I don't do any video but I may
one of these days once I have the proper hardware. 

Streaming video is 'iffy'. Even with my daughter's cable modem
access the backbone will interrupt the streaming and it's not
always continuous as you would expect it to be. I would guess
with tweaking of buffer sizes this could be smoothed out but
the daughter never 'tweaks' anything. Good in a way because I
see Windows as typical users see it. My own setup is so tweaked
that when people ask what W31 can or cannot do I have to try to
remember how it was before I tweaked it or my answers are going
to become disappointments to those who asked me. 

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