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On 29/04/2010 18:42, Rob Beard wrote:
I had one numpty when I worked in TS (who had a 14.4K modem) who couldn't send an attachment. I asked how big it was, and what - he said 'A Word document, 8 pages'.On 29/04/10 17:32, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Rob Beard wrote:I guess if you're shifting large CAD files across the world it'll still be quicker than posting them on CD/DVD :-)I have a customer toying with taking a 10Mb lan extension type product to upload their high resolution images to their web server... Currently they post DVDs to their host... They are in Bristol though and literally 100m from the ISPs POP. Setup costs are still a small fortune though! GordonWow they must be big images then if they have to post them on DVD :-) Rob
me: Uh, no in kilobytes? cmr: How do I find out? *got him into Explorer*32Mb. Turns out it was a Word document with uncompressed photographs on each page.
I told him it would be faster to print it out and post it. JulianPS approximately 2.28 hours if his modem connection stayed solid and he got 4Kb a second, oh and that's not counting encoding the attachment so probably closer to 4 hours.
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