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On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 15:00, Julian Hall wrote:
So the real question is "Why pay for a faster connection than your ISP allows you to use?" 1Mb spread over 24 hours is 99420bits/sec. 97Kbits/sec. The slowest cable connection is 128Kbits/sec.
because most of us want to download a page in an instant, then spend a while reading it, then download another in an instant. and are more likely to want to download a program - 8000 - 80 000 megabits worth of data - and then install and use it than to download a whole distribution against a deadline. Bandwidth per second for bursts is important for usability. bandwidth per day for volume is also important, but less crucial for most of us. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.