Bisbal, Prentice 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.
If you are near a major highway you should be able to get a cell carrier's digital card, although the 'unlimited' data plans tend to be expensive and not really unlimited. I've found a few places my treo can't pick up email, but not many.
And there are always the satellite services like Starband if you are really out in the wilds - at least in North America.