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|    George Pope to Joe Mackey    |
|    Modem speeds (was: Re: Old PC's)    |
|    12 Jan 22 17:29:30    |
      MSGID: 1:153/757.0 598e2426       REPLY: 1:135/392 f60439f5       TZUTC: -0800       CHARSET: LATIN-1       > It would take a long time to download with a 56 and now if it takes more       > than a few minutes to d/l a two hour movie its "come on, hurry up, what's       > taking you so long?"              IKR? Jeeze Louise!              My bro, in Seoul, with a built-in T1 in his apartment, expected each 2 hour        movie to take about a second or two to drop to one of his disks              He collected hundreds in just his first weekend there!              He could walk to the corner & buy 100 DVDs of anything, including Windows or        any utility, for 8c USD (1 wan per disk/movie)              I think he mostly just wanted to brag to me about numbers he downloaded &        burned personally. . .              I would've, if I needed that much, just gone to the corner & spent a buck on        pre-recorded stuff, & kept that DL+burn time for other things.. .              --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5        * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 15/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 129/305       SEEN-BY: 134/100 138/146 153/105 135 141 250 757 7715 221/6 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 307 424 426 428 452 664 700 240/5832 249/206       SEEN-BY: 249/317 400 266/512 267/67 275/100 280/464 282/1038 292/854       SEEN-BY: 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/11 200 396/45 633/280 640/1321       SEEN-BY: 712/848 3634/12       PATH: 153/757 7715 229/426           |
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