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From: Roger Blake on 17 Feb 2010 12:29 On 2010-02-14, Robert Heller <heller(a)deepsoft.com> wrote: > And often unavailable in some places, like rural America. (That's > right: much of rural *USA* does not have any sort of high speed internet.) Not to mention that some of us don't *want* any sort of high-speed internet. Dialup does everything I need, and I'm completly unwilling to spend a nickel more for a broadband connection. It just is not worth anything to me. -- Roger Blake (Change "invalid" to "com" for email. Google Groups killfiled due to spam.) "Obama dozed while people froze."
From: Florian Rehnisch on 17 Feb 2010 12:52 o Robert Heller <heller(a)deepsoft.com>: > At Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Rahul <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: >> The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in news:hl63vg$pih$2 >> @news.albasani.net: >> > the cost of the bandwidth is generally a lot less than the cost of the >> > DVDS... One could ask a friend. >> Not in India. > And often unavailable in some places, like rural America. (That's > right: much of rural *USA* does not have any sort of high speed internet.) Even rural Germany (hey, Mom's still using a 56k modem). -- flori Vim-Hilfe auf Deutsch http://www.florianrehnisch.de/vimhelp/ WARNING: PRGRAMMING BUG IN E2FSCK! OR SOME BONEHEAD (YOU) IS CHECKING A MOUNTED (LIVE) FILESYSTEM.
From: Robert Heller on 17 Feb 2010 15:37 At Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:52:26 +0000 (UTC) eixman(a)gmx.de (Florian Rehnisch) wrote: > > o Robert Heller <heller(a)deepsoft.com>: > > At Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Rahul <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > >> The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in news:hl63vg$pih$2 > >> @news.albasani.net: > > >> > the cost of the bandwidth is generally a lot less than the cost of the > >> > DVDS... > > One could ask a friend. > > >> Not in India. > > > And often unavailable in some places, like rural America. (That's > > right: much of rural *USA* does not have any sort of high speed internet.) > > Even rural Germany (hey, Mom's still using a 56k modem). What speed does she connect at? Is it mostly close to 56k? Here in rural Western Mass, people often connect at < 24K. In other words, a 56k modem buys you little over a 33.6K or 28.8K modem (only one cannot buy a 33.6K or 28.8K modem modem any more). -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller(a)deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
From: The Natural Philosopher on 17 Feb 2010 16:47 Roger Blake wrote: > On 2010-02-14, Robert Heller <heller(a)deepsoft.com> wrote: >> And often unavailable in some places, like rural America. (That's >> right: much of rural *USA* does not have any sort of high speed internet.) > > Not to mention that some of us don't *want* any sort of high-speed internet. > Dialup does everything I need, and I'm completly unwilling to spend a nickel > more for a broadband connection. It just is not worth anything to me. > Odd. My main reason to go broadband was to REDUCE the cost of internet.,.
From: John Hasler on 17 Feb 2010 17:09
Robert Heller writes: > What speed does she connect at? Is it mostly close to 56k? Here in > rural Western Mass, people often connect at < 24K. A 56K modem can only work at 56K if the co is digital and can provide a digital trunk to the ISP. BTW we have DSL here on a farm in rural Wisconsin. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA |