Posted by AnthonyR on 09/26/05 15:27

"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
news:11jf50pi7rml573@corp.supernews.com...
> "Gary Eickmeier" wrote ...
>> Richard Crowley wrote:
>>> "Gary Eickmeier" wrote ...
>>>
>>>> So doesn't DSL work off the phone lines?
>>>
>>>
>>> Not when your telephone line is more than 18,000 feet.
>>> Besides, half my neighborhood is on SLC (Subscriber-
>>> Line Carrier) were they use the bandwidth that would
>>> have been used for DSL to carry your next-door neighbor's
>>> telephone service. :-((
>>
>> Whooh! Satellite, here I come!
>
> I pay US$7.92/month for 48-52KB dialup. The satellite charges/speeds are
> just not worth it to me.
> Clearly other people value internet connectivity more than
> I do, or the satellite people would be out of business.
>

Well, How I see it, the satillite people went into the business originally
for tv programming to homes,
and since they can offer fast downloads thru space to your pc, but use phone
line to upload url info to them,
it's sort of a last resort when you have no other options like phone or
cable.
And knowing they are the last option, they cash in on that fact, also not
really wanting to grow
that part of their business since it probably would use up lots of bandwidth
anyway.

Richard if you haven't felt the need till now, then you're ok.
But getting latest windows updates, and say something like sp2 over phone
line sounds scarey to me, days? weeks to download?
Yikes. I guess you just load that stuff off a cd.

One of my neighbors asks occassionally for me to try and download stuff for
her, cause it would take 2 weeks on her dialup.
She has a Mac, and I have PC's, so that's gotten me out of downloading and
burning programs to cd for her.
I tell her it's not compatible which I believe is true.
AnthonyR.

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