On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:54:54PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
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>
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:43:27 GMT, Paul Robinson wrote:
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> > If you save 20Mb, over a reliable 56Kb modem, you've saved them somewhere
> > in the region of one and a half hours... I think you guys are too used to
> > your broadband... :)
>
> And you're forgetting that, as I said in my original reply, people with
> 56K modems usually benefit from hardware compression over their link
> anyway.
>
Depends. If you have a dial-up connection, and pay for the connection time,
then hardware (or link-level software) compression saves both download time
and your money. But if you pay for bytes (like me), modem compression only
saves download time, but not money. 22MB would cost my company $7.70.
But considering how much 650MB costs... I don't really think this is a big
saving :-)
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