On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote:
This is interesting. I connect at 50K without fail, but my neighbor, using the
same cable just another pair, only connects at 28.8. Futhormore, my home is
wired with 4 pair Cat5 cable from the demark. If I use the other line (bl/wh)
that has my house phones on it, I only connect at about 44K. But if I go
around the house and unplug all the phones, I get 50K. Hence the dedicated
phone line for the computer with nothing except the modem connected to it.
Herman
> Where i live u have one choice in phone company's, ive tried EVERY ISP and
> i still connect at 28.8. Whiner's?? I dont think so! I come to check my
> mail, and just to see if someone usefull mailed me, i have to wait 15
> minutes to download it.
>
> I would care less if I was on DSL, but that isnt the case.
>
> I think its called common sense.
>
> At 07:50 PM 3/19/2000 +0000, you wrote:
> >On Fri, 25 Apr 2036, you wrote:
> > > Wow...a bunch of whiner's!!! (although a 2 MB file is quite large)
> > >
> > > If your ISP connect is so bad ie: crappy ISP, worse phone lines, or a 28.8
> > > modem...all of these can be fixed fairly easily...the easiest would be
> > to but
> > > a $40.00 hardware modem from Cirrus Logic or some other Co., and
> > probably sign
> > > with a new ISP...even the phone lines can be upgraded if you complain
> > to your
> > > TelCO enuff.
> > >
> > > Jaguar
> >
> >Unfortunately some of us have no choice as to our telephone company.
> >Things are
> >changing here in the UK but BT still have the lion's share of the market.
> >I run
> >a 56K ISA modem and there's nothing wrong with the telephone lines. It doesn't
> >matter which ISP one uses here - they all give about the same performance. We
> >can install an ISDN line but that's very expensive.
> >
> >I'm therefore stuck with about 4kb/sec download speed which means about 11
> >minutes to download that actual file.
> >
> >If anyone knows of a way to set kmail to reject large files I'd be grateful.
> >
> >I've already accepted that I was a little harsh but, as the rules have now
> >been
> >changed, it should never (never say never) happen again.
> >
> >As to posting in html - kmail doesn't really like it.
> >
> >--
> >Regards
> >
> >John the Nadger
> >
> >http://mklinux.cjb.net
> >
> >http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
> >
