On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Adam Maloney wrote: > The argument is that the internet doesn't have the infrastructure to > handle residential users with high-speed connections. But if you're > downloading from Citilink's tucows mirror or something else that's close > or has enough capacity you'll definately benefit from more bandwidth. The > thing is, I've got multiple T-1's to VISI (and soon a DS-3) and I'd say on > average downloading something from some random place I don't get full > speed, I get probably 30KByte, sometimes 50KByte on a good day...that's a > rough estimate of an average. Seriously? At least half the stuff I tend to download here (Sprint/MRNet), I get >75kbps.. usually around 100-130.. -- 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