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.

I hope you don't consider the below to be anything remotely like an
argument to the above, which is about you trying to convince me the
$200 would be paid back in no time at all.

RB> Well I move up to 60meg in a day some days, 

ie on average you move what?

RB> be it at local rates.

And there goes any argument using that figure anyway.

Before we even get into the fact that I didn't say that it wasn't
cost-justified for YOU to get 33600, for all I know you are calling
Russia at 11am via Telecom and transferring 20 meg per day.  YOU
were telling ME that it was cost-justified if I had thought about
it a little.

RB> And I take into account the cost of buying a removeable hard drive
RB> and a Car and and getting a driver for the car (As I am no longer
RB> able to drive), and actually copying the files to the HD and
RB> physically taking 40 km across town and back again.

I've just done the calculation, and you're talking about 5 hours,
very interesting.  60 meg.  Wow.  BFN.  Paul.
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