[GEM Development] Test: Ok, I'll Be the First to Try a Letter

[alec]

shit...i didn't realise how long the u.s.a. had had broadband speeds - we
only got broadband last september (2004) - mainly because our local
telephone exchange thingy needed to be upgraded and we couldn't get anything
higher than an 7/8kbit/s d/l speed before on a 28k and a 56k modem!
annoying.

anyway - atleast we have 512k broadband now - i still would like the idea of
downloading iso files in under 2 mins though...they still take about 5-6hrs
at my speed!

veganalex

On 09/02/06, Owen Rudge <owen at owenrudge.net> wrote:
>
> > Secondly, the *slowest* ADSL lines I've ever heard of were around
> 512Kb/s
> > downstream; speeds of 128Kb/s or so upstream are typical. 64Kb/s is ISDN
> > speed and by aggregating 2 channels (ISDN channels typically come in
> > pairs) you'd be able to get 128Kb/s, and that would be symmetrical, with
> > 64Kb/s upstream too.
>
> Were there possibly some confusions between Kbit/sec and KB/sec here,
> perhaps? as 64KB/s would be 512kbps, and 25KB/s would be 200kbps, both of
> which sound more like what we have here in the UK. But perhaps the US is
> just silly again. ;-)
>
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