Bisbal, Prentice wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
Jim Perrin spake the following on 5/1/2007 4:14 PM:
On 5/1/07, John Summerfield debian@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
Calculate how long it takes a 30 Mbyte message to go through a modem. Imagine if the poor sod waiting for it is downloading something else at the time.
Anyone still using a modem is indeed a poor sod The rest of the intarweb doesn't seem to care about modem folk anymore either. We're just doing what all the other kids do :-P
What's a modem? ;-P
There are still people in Northern New Jersey (less than 30 miles from New York City), who still have no choice but to use a dial-up modem. I was talking to one of them last night.
We live about thirty miles West of Norfolk, VA and all that's available is dial-up. The cable company wanted $6000 to provide service, a matter of a few hundred yards/meters. Our only option is satellite service which works better than dial-up but not as good as the cable company service I had in Florida.
Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia