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To: WebDrone who wrote (2687)	1/4/1999 1:06:00 AM
From: George T. Santamaria	Read Replies (1) of 12823

<George, your post confused me. Here is an interesting test, and one that is in line with the interests of this thread, I hope. Go to starwars.com; I guess that I was simply stating that all dial-up internet services have been a great disappointment and that I'm thoroughly satisfied with my Cox@home cable modem connection. You actually aroused my curiosity and I did your test. The download took about 10 minutes and the data was coming at 47.3kB/sec (approx. 473kbits/sec)per my Netscape browser. Why it doesn't come at the advertised 10Mb can be for any number of reasons: - Other users on my node - Network congestion at the ATHM headend - Network congestion at Cox - Slow server at Lucasfilm - Arbitrary limitations imposed by anyone between here and the website Can't imagine how bad it would be on a dial-up ISP. Because the dial-up is a weak link, it would appear to be operating near the 3-4k/sec limit. In such case, with a dial-up, I wouldn't be willing to sit for an hour and a half just to watch a starwars preview!

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