[CentOS] Re: New lists

[Bob Goodwin - W2BOD]

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 at 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