Hello mark.

12 Apr 07 00:10, you wrote to Mvan Le:


 MvLe>> I thought if you were in the US you'd be getting 24 - 30 mbits
 MvLe>> for peanuts. I must have it all wrong about the priority
 MvLe>> governments place on broadband there in the states.

 ml> errrmmm... ya need to look at those origin lines a bit closer...
 ml> russell is in zone 5 which is africa... more specifically, he is in
 ml> Free State, South Africa (as his origin line states) ;)

 ml> 9600baud radio modem connections carrying TCPIP (instead of UUCP or
 ml> even FIDO) are common methods of networking and communications over
 ml> there... TCPIP has a huge overhead when compared to UUCP and FIDO... i
 ml> can't even imagine working with it over a 9600baud radio link!

Very few of those left here, but further north, it is still a reality ... 


Russell

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