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On 20 January 2008, Justin Findlay wrote: |
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> I pay $40/month for 14 Mib up and down and I can run it at max |
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> throughput indefinitely. I seeded all 92 gentoo torrents for a month |
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> once to test this out. :-) Here in Utah, USA we have the largest |
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> community fiber network in the country called UTOPIA. I'm only on |
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> iProvo, but on UTOPIA they can get 50 Mib for a residential link. |
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You lucky bastard over there in Utopia! ;-) |
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My ADSL is 256Kb downstream and 64Kb upstream. I pay about USD50 per month |
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with a data cap of 1GB per month. Still, this is far better and cheaper than |
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the dialup connection I have had before. |
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The so-called digital divide isn't all that much about technology, computers |
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or other gadgets.; It's about knowledge and, mainly, bandwidth and its costs. |
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I still have customers that run a 100 workstations business on a 128Kb line, |
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paying more than USD1000 per month for it. |
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Alright, we are straying far from the topic here. Good luck to Dale! |
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Uwe |
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If a man speaks in a forest, and no woman listens to him, |
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is he still lying? |
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