Hey Bill:
-=> Quoting Bill Cheek to Kerry Kowalski <=-
 BC> By the way.....my Internet connection is now 24-hrs a day/7-days a
 BC> week at Ethernet speeds of 10-Mbps.   I downloaded the 3.02 version of
 BC> MS Internet Explorer in 18-secs on a bad day.  The size was over
 BC> 10-MBytes!!!  It would take you 83-hours to do that at 19.2-kbps.
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Wait a minute here....is that *supposed* to be hours? .  Even at
14.4 (assuming a *solid* connect), you should be able to d/l 10M in a
bit over 1.5 hrs.  Hell, with 28.8 *to my ISP* I've been able to d/l
approx. 5M in less than an hour.  Of course there are times when it's
painfully slow .
How are you connecting to the backbone to get those kinds of speeds?
T1 ?  And don't you still have the 'slowest link in the chain'
problem?  I rarely see true 28.8 transfers when I'm on the Net.  We
have 128k ISDN at work....throughput is all over the map.   A buddy of
mine has a cable modem....I visited for a 'demo' and he grabbed the
Win95 Netscape 3.01 (approx 5M) in something under a minute....other
transfer rates when he was 'surfing' were sub-'14.4'.  :-(  And he's
paying almost twice what I pay for my 'phone' connection to my ISP.
.
All of these high-speed connect options are great...but we have to
consider what our connect 'windows' are.  My times are evenings and
weekends....I'm lucky if I can get transfer rates that are anywhere
close to what I'd get from a local BBS (or Compuserve, for that
matter).
Now, to keep with the echo topic for a minute...can you point me
to a scanner-related newsgroup?
Cheers....Doug
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