From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 14:35:31 MDT
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
>On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
>> Current ballpark figures of residental WANs is 40 kBytes/s (and about 15
>> ms latency) is sure not GBit rates, but 40 kBytes/s of a tight code
>> communication is not something that can be shrugged off.
>
>Actually Eugene, I can get 50-60 kBytes/sec on my DSL line and it
>isn't configured for the highest speeds. I think the max rates
>may be 2-4 times greater than that (though I'd have to pay more
>for it).
I routinely got 100 KB/s on my DSL, and that was the cheap one. After
the dot-com bomb (some effects also here), I have a 30 KB/s line and
I'm hitting the limiter all the time, so there's no bandwith shortage.
Alfio
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