John Summerfield spake the following on 5/1/2007 4:58 PM: > 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 >> >> >> > A very bad joke, and a very sort point, but for me it's an unavoidable > fact of life, at least until I move house. > > > Sorry, I just couldn't resist. Any possibility of bonding two modem connections to get a little more bandwidth? Don't know if your ISP would allow it, but might be worth asking. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!