On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 08:20:02AM -0500, Jon Schewe wrote: > Well considering hte fastest DSL I can get is 144k, it should be. The cable > companies only seem to be able to figure out how to get 2Mbps down and 640Kbps > down. That's still better that most DSL out there. ...which generally just means that the bottleneck gets moved elsewhere on the network. Granted, I don't spend a lot of time moving large blocks of data around, but when my DSL was at 256k, there didn't seem to be a whole lot of sites (other than debian.org) that could fill that pipe. Now that USWest and visi have pulled their rate limiting and I can do 640k, even debian.org will frequently be unable to pump data out fast enough to fill it. A 2M or 5M connection would be serious overkill... I suppose it might help latency some and it would certainly improve multiple simultaneous transfers (unless they're all to/from the same host), but that's about it. -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org