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[SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>]

EarthNSky wrote:
> I've connected that slow before, but I average 16 to 18.  The fastest I 
> get is 26.4 kbps.  What is your normal up there?
>
> B
>   
Generally on the desktop I get 19.9, but I'm sure that's a limitation 
imposed by my modem.  For some reason modems are fair game for the phone 
company; I swear they have some way to kill the things.....

The reason I think it's partly the modem is that I used to get up around 
30 or so pretty consistently when I was using my work computer. 

The only time I really find it an actual hindrance (as opposed to a 
PITA) is when I need to d/l a book with illustrations that some 
publisher is bent on sending me something big on their time---then it's 
problematic.  Usually I can  go into town to the library where there is 
a dandy good connection (one good thing about Maine; for many years now 
even small libraries have been required to have a good connection and X 
number of public-use computers, based on the number of people they 
serve, or of course can take own laptop) and d/l files from whatever 
repository it's in.  That's pretty fast and easy:  it's just that I 
resist going to town because I'm a stick-in-the-mud.

Susan Jane, lost in the fog