RB>> File 300teru.zip     1432681 bytes

RB>> 33600\33600 connect  3883cps      time 6 min 10 sec

RB>> 28800\28800 connect  3329cps      time 7 min 15 sec



RB>> You save one full minute on a 1.4meg file.



 PE> Reality check, reality check.  What's Optus's latest thing?  

 PE> 10c/minute or 20c/minute?  And let's take the 20c/minute, that

 PE> means $200 = 1000 minutes, and to get the 1000 minutes of savings,

 PE> I need to transfer a total of 1000 meg, ie 1 fucking gigabyte

 PE> of data, before I would pay the modem off.  I probably get 1-2

 PE> meg a day from my BOSS, which is a LOCAL call anyway, but even

 PE> if it was an STD call, that would take me about 3 years in order

 PE> to break even.  And because it is a local call, not STD, it would

 PE> take me more than my lifetime to get the $200 back.



 PE> I can see why Bill would think that all you said was completely

 PE> logical though.  BFN.  Paul.



Well I move up to 60meg in a day some days, be it at local rates.

And I take into account the cost of buying a removeable hard drive

and a Car and and getting a driver for the car (As I am no longer

able to drive), and actually copying the files to the HD and

physically taking 40 km across town and back again.



Russell



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