I listen to internet radio stations, run a mailserver - which means I can get 80 maillist messages in a couple of seconds, download the latest NZSE stock prices (which you could do with dialup, but you would have to have ppp on demand) and I get personal pleasure seeing I have a ping of 25 or 26 on xtra gaming servers, which is usally the lowest on the server.
-Paul On Wednesday 04 December 2002 01:51 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > The thread seems to have devolved into two:- > > What do you use "BroadBand" for? > > I listen to two or three radio webroadcasters: BBC; NPR; WCPE selecting > programs as I feel the need. > I watch news clips occasionally. > I keep my gentoo distro more or less up-to-date via the citylink mirror. > I web surf & e-mail list. > > I have a tiny interactive forum on a web server. It's more or less unused. > Who's going to make this months contributory hit? > http://berty.dyndns.org/forum/index.php > ( It's safe from the nasty 'bots now, you have to log in even to read. ) > > > Forget the cap - Pauls question was about the situation if you had no cap > > - and I was answering hypotheticly on that basis. > > So am I here. > > If I had a full-speed -- as in fast Ethernet -- connection with unlimited > traffic I would want to watch some decent public-service television, listen > to WCPE as background music all the time. My son would doubtless want to > play interactive games more or less continuously until I shove him off to > bed. I'd set up a streaming server to sound broadcast good readers reading > (in)famous literary works as well as the text in printable form. > ( and probably get no hits whatsoever except for the D.H. Lawrence stuff > :-) I'd keep my distro up-to-date with a cron-job at 3am every day.
