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

[veganalex]

sorry it is me! my name got changed to alec....:@ or maybe it was actually
me that did that....nvm...

veganalex

On 09/02/06, alec <veganalex at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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. ;-)
> >
> > --
> > Owen Rudge
> > http://www.owenrudge.net/
> >
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