Re: Futility of Hi-Speed ISP Connections

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From: Woodrow Sawyer
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:00

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Anonymous wrote:

> With all this talk of swoopy, high-priced tech for linking to the net
> at astronomical connect rates, I can't help but ask the obvious
> question:  What's the point, when net congestion and server overloads
> are such that you rarely can move data at sustained rates over 28.8k
> anyway?

Uhhhh... YMMV.

I got 416Kbs SDSL from Concentric.net.
The wire is from Northpoint.

Measured ftp data rates are consistently above 40KBytes/sec. That's
substantially better (!) than the quoted 28.8k above. I suggest that
the problem is most likely with the sender. ... Given that there was
reference to smut sites, I'm not really surprised.

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