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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Russell Brooks
date: 1996-04-05 09:38:16
subject: usr

BG>> I'm sure you do, but it's going to take quite a while to 

BG>> recover the extra $300 by way of reduced on-line charges (if 

BG>> at all).  :)



DD>> 20 to 30 minutes online time per day, during business hours, 5 days a 

 PE> week,



DD>> between Brisbane and Cairns adds up.



BG>> If you intend spending that much time online, and the lines are good 

 PE> enough



BG>> to support 33600 links, you will indeed pay for the extra within 12 

 PE> months 

BG>> (if not even less).  I'd work it out for you, but I simply couldn't be 

BG>> bothered, as Paul would mindlessly dispute whatever figures I posted...



 PE> Sure Bill, I really believe you.



 PE> David, would be cheaper if you were to use the internet to transfer

 PE> that data (and pay internet charges both ends of course)?  BFN.  Paul.



Might be cheaper but a hell of a lot slower unless you have ISDN

into both offices.



I downloaded the V34Man.Txt file from the USR FTP site yesterday

(well 99% before it closed the connection, seems the file is 300k in

text format and you are only allowed into USR's site for half an

hour,...this not being long enough to transfer 300k.

With a direct Courier link up this should take





Russell



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