On Saturday 07 June 2003 11:29 am, Nick Tarleton wrote: > On Saturday 07 June 2003 11:00 am, Toad wrote: > > > I should point out, that if your container is large enough to FEC > > > (that's around a meg), then your container is too fucking big - in > > > ideal conditions, (i.e. not freenet), a 56k modem (which are very > > > common, despite what some of the broadband elite think) will take > > > around 5-10 minutes to fetch your data. > > > > Well I suppose we probably have a few third world users and a lot of > > unemployed users... > > And employed users who don't make enough money (or have a high cost of > living), and people who live in the boonies of the first world, and people > who travel a lot... face it, a lot of people still use slow links!
True. If I lived about 5 miles away, I could easily afford some very fast cable. But because of where I happen to be, there's nothing faster than 56k, unless I wanted to go satellite. Which sucks _and_ is expensive. Doubleplusbad. :) --hobbs
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