Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

[Samy Elashmawy <samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info , I can only get 28 K drom my phone lines , not even
56K , now I know to wait it out for dsl ect.. and not cable. I ahve no love
for the cable co anyway , at least with telco there is some compatition.

At 12:19 PM 2/8/2001 -0500, Egan wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:17:15 -0600 (CST), Michael
><mogmios@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>I'd go nuts being back on a POTS system again. I don't even have normal
>>phone service anymore. Cable modem for data and cell phones for talkin.
>
>As soon as your cable provider's customer base grows, it will be just
>like a POTS system again.  Their don't engineer those networks to
>support the outrageous marketing claims they make.
>
>Around here in the evening when most people are at home and online,
>the cable provider is only about twice as fast a 56k modem.
>
>It's not even worth the extra cost.  Sure, in the daytime, I was able
>to get downloads faster than a T1.  But that doesn't help most people
>who want to be online in the evening when everyone else is downloading
>too.
>
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