-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2006-05-15 at 14:11 +0200, Clayton wrote:
In Canada, my friend's & family are lucky to get 512Kbit (if it's even available) - a couple are on 1Mbit connections... they live in the city.... a couple others only have 56k dialup (not even ISDN works where they live)... but either way, downloading ISOs is a major undertaking, and BitTorrent is either barely tolerated, or simply won't work at all (in the case of my parent's satellite internet connection... latency is way too high for BitTorrent to work).
My ADSL is 1 Mbit also, in a city in Spain. 20 Mbit is announced, but the small print says something about "ask for availability..." meaning it is only available in selected parts of the main capitals. And it is not a maintained speed (ie, it is a maximum). And cable is not universal here, my house is not "viable". Smaller cities, villages, countryside? Forget it. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEaHQLtTMYHG2NR9URApMiAJ4s3qAPcSNyNYCZbpcgqwGILMepaACdEBKH 8+yW9ZgHHln2nzhQpHJ9Noo= =vnLA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----