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At last count there were about 300 cable modem users on the city
cable system which is using my ISP for actual internet connect. Of that
300 users, 299 use Win9x. Windows is so bloated that if the connect and
through-put speeds increased 100 fold, the end user wouldn't notice much
improvement.
I was being facetious [smart donkey] when I "whined" about how slow
my modem is. I lived through the 235 bytes ps of a 2400 modem, and the
top speed I've ever seen under the best of conditions using compression
where it does the most good, on my 14.4 is about 2100 bytes ps.
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No Mac or Linux users? How do you find a cable provider willing to take on a
customer without 32-bit Windows? @Home is Windows/Mac-only as of my last
information. But Telocity (DSL) seems to offer hope for non-Windows users.
I still sometimes get speeds on the order of 222 bytes/sec, normal for 2400
modem, with 56K modem. I still have that modem, don't know if it would still
work, or where I would be able to use it. Next modem after that, Newcom 14.4,
did up to 80000 bytes/minute, though Compuserve was usually only 2/3 that fast.
Regarding Linux, I too am pinched for disk space, really need a new computer,
but have the cantankerous SyJet which would have enough space on one cartridge
for a full Linux installation, 1422 MB.
