Re: Futility of Hi-Speed ISP Connections

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From: Robert Wilkins
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:00

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Phil Stripling wrote:
> 
> Anonymous <nobody@base.xs4all.nl> writes:

> > An example:  A knucklehead friend who's always downloading smut .JPGs
> > from porn sites told me the other day that he finally sat down and
> > figured it out - his actual, averaged download speed on this junk is as
> > slow as it was in 1983 with an old 300-baud modem.  How would some zippy
> > cable modem improve that?
> 
> Is it that bad in Europe? If your so-called knucklehead is consistently
> connected at 300 baud, something other than congestion is wrong.

Maybe that junk '83 Sinclair needs to be upgraded? 

~bob

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