Posted by Specs on 09/26/05 17:31

"AnthonyR" <nomail@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:%rUZe.1062$Fc4.794@twister.nyc.rr.com...
>
> "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.
>
>

For those in the third world US:
http://money.guardian.co.uk/internetcosts/story/0,12769,1578645,00.html?gusr
c=rss

24 Mbps download 1.3Mbps upload. All for the princely sum of �24 a month.
I remember less than 5 years ago the company I was working for was being
charged �12000 a year for a fixed line of 128kbs.

Anyone know if there are freeware multicast video server software
available???

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