On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Adam Maloney wrote: > The only reason I could see more than 256k is if you're planning on > transferring large amounts of data from more than 1 place simultaneously. > Most things you download won't be able to peg a 256k DSL line (or the ISP > on the other end or backbone won't support it). If you did something > where you had, say, a 256k stream to one ISP and a 256k stream to another > ISP and needed to have them going simultaneously (2 downloads, a download > and a streaming video/audio clip...) ..and what about those of us who want a local Debian mirror at home? Debian's site has managed to suck every bandwidth source I've ever thrown at it dry.. I just pulled 282k/s from it (from a machine on a VERY fast network), which would easily suck most DSL connections try. :) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org