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