Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-17 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 10:38 PM Subject: Re: [H] Net slow today? get rid of AOL, will stop 99% What I am about to say required people sticking together

Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-17 Thread Harry McGregor
Even with non-text emails, the bandwidth usage of email really is not that big on the grand scheme of things. With transit prices as low as they are (as long as you are buying real bandwidth, comercial stuff, in large pipes), in the $10-50/mbit, it really is not that bad. I have seen a lot of

[H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread Brian Weeden
Is it just me or is the whole net slow today? I would expect NFL pages and such to be a bit slow but they are all really bad and most other pages I've gone to have been slow as well. -- Brian

RE: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Dodge
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 1:46 PM To: hwg Subject: [H] Net slow today? Is it just me or is the whole net slow today? I would expect NFL pages and such to be a bit slow but they are all really bad and most

Re: [hardware] [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread Steve
aahh..so it's not just meand I'm on the other side of the world... - Original Message - From: Brian Weeden To: hwg Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 6:46 AM Subject: [hardware] [H] Net slow today? Is it just me or is the whole net slow today? I would

Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread FORC5
must be that electronic gunk ;-) At 01:46 PM 10/16/2005, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: Is it just me or is the whole net slow today? I would expect NFL pages and such to be a bit slow but they are all really bad and most other pages I've gone to have been slow as well. -- Brian -- Tallyho

Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [H] Net slow today? must be that electronic gunk Other than pure spam, I can name one cause of wasted bandwidth on email. Clog

Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread Brian Weeden
It's not email really but the non-text emails. All those fancy inline images and rich text and audio and crap. Ban all that and require all email to be plain old text and you can send as much email as you want. -- Brian

Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread warpmedia
Subject: Re: [H] Net slow today? must be that electronic gunk Other than pure spam, I can name one cause of wasted bandwidth on email. Clog up enough bandwidth and the Internet has to slow down. There should be a way to stop people from sending you unwanted email, period! Then it could be made

Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread FORC5
get rid of AOL, will stop 99% ;-) At 04:49 PM 10/16/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poked the stick with: - Original Message - From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [H] Net slow today? must