We've been spoiled (was RE: OT: was Facial Hair... now New Speeds available)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting John Esak (Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:02:31 -0400):

[...]
> I'm not so much interested in the "speed" side of 30Mbs downolading and
> 10Mb uploading as the "cpacity". We have 30 or 40 people banging on the
> T1 pipe all the time... and a measly 1.5 symetrical just isn't great
> anymore.  I can not but believe that multiplying this by about 20 times
> won't help a *real* lot. :-)
[...]

YKTBHSYW...  ("You know that broadband has spoiled you when...")

... you complain that it'll take an entire hour to download that 600MB
ISO image you want.

... and then you remember how you had to contemplate whether or not a
100K file was worth the 20 minutes it would take to download, while you
paid the higher per-minute connection charge for 1200bps.

:-)


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