Re: Hardcore Computist Magazine online...

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <20040229213453.26484.00000664@mb-m20.aol.com>,
 mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

> Simon Williams wrote:
> 
> >Laine Houghton <laine@intergate.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >> Most of the servers I visit are so slow I didn't know I had a fat pipe.
> >
> >I never thought of that, but I'm sure I have a feeling my experience
> >would be similar :(
> 
> There are some slow servers, of course, but many download
> sites will pump 500-700 kilobits/sec., which is a _very_ big
> difference.

Apple is currently pushing ~160KBytes/sec for Wayne Stewarts AE catalog.  
(BTW - Thanks Wayne...also interested in looking at it.)

> I use a cable modem that can deliver up to T1 rate (1.5 Mbits/sec),
> and that makes it pretty easy to see the server speed.

I get 3Mbits/sec down, 384Kbits/sec up.  I am, with multiple connections 
always, sometimes with just a single connection to somewhere, able to 
use all of that bandwidth.  I'd give up on the net before I went back to 
dial-up.

Greg B.

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