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.
RB> And if you are doing this on anything but a local call, then
RB> these minutes add up (specially at say, $1 per minute)
RB> Saving a dollar a minute is significant to me.
RB> 200 minutes and you have bought your courier.
RB> Even at 50c a minute, it is nothing to sneeze at.

Reality check, reality check.  What's Optus's latest thing?  
10c/minute or 20c/minute?  And let's take the 20c/minute, that
means $200 = 1000 minutes, and to get the 1000 minutes of savings,
I need to transfer a total of 1000 meg, ie 1 fucking gigabyte
of data, before I would pay the modem off.  I probably get 1-2
meg a day from my BOSS, which is a LOCAL call anyway, but even
if it was an STD call, that would take me about 3 years in order
to break even.  And because it is a local call, not STD, it would
take me more than my lifetime to get the $200 back.

I can see why Bill would think that all you said was completely
logical though.  BFN.  Paul.
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