G'day david,

Replying to a message of david begley to Jeff Green on 12-10-96:

 JG>> ISDN!! Bastard!

 db> Remember, chances are that means he's subject to Telstra's pricing
 db> regime and their "service guarantees" (ahem).  ;-)  

It'd be his work connection (I'd guess) so he probably couldn't give a
stuff about the charges.

 db> I've just got to learn to live with our hunky E3{*} microwave.
 db> {*} 34Mbps.  ;-)

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 JG>> I got to 97% of that before the connection died :-(

 db> Hasn't it appeared on an Australian mirror site yet, like luga?
 db>     ftp://ftp.latrobe.edu.au/pub/os2/os2/

No. Or I should say, not that I've noticed. Adobe did ask for it NOT to be
copied to other sites as they use the d/ls as a measure of interest in the
product (something like that anyway).

 JG>> My connects in the last couple of days have been very good for a
 JG>> 28.8k connect. I also hope it stays this way.

 db> Could be any number of reasons:

[chomp]

I knew that Telstra was having problems as my ISP has mentioned it. I was
expecting the connections to get far worse when all the kiddies started to
play during the holidays but I've been wrong so far.

Regards...Jeff (jeff{at}matra.com.au)

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