On Saturday, November 02 1996, Bill Grimsley wrote to John Piper ...

 BG> That's fairly irrelevant in these days of fibre optic between most (if
 BG> not all) major exchanges, where the digital signal is regenerated evry
 BG> 50-80km.  The real problem occurs between the exchange and the
 BG> subscriber, where distance really does make a vast difference to
 BG> usable bandwidth.

Given that I'm not that far from my exchange (I estimate 700 metres), one
would think that achieving 33600 connects would be possible for me.

John (japp{at}mpx.com.au)

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