On Friday 07 May 2004 11:06 pm, cr wrote: > > year or two. Grabbing new stuff by modem just takes patience. It helps > > if you don't pay for your connectivity by the hour too.
> Ah. I do (or rather, I have a fixed number of hours prer month on > dial-up). Gack. Well, I suppose your original statement must be reaffirmed in your case then. It definitely eats time. > Rather more significantly, I only have one telephone line - so when my > computer's on line, phone ain't working. *And* I can never guarantee the In my case, it helps that nobody ever calls except spammers anyway. The phone being busy is no big deal. In fact, I miss being on the phone all the time. Now it rings, and I have to deal with spammers. :( > line won't drop for some reason, so leaving the thing running overnight > isn't really a solution. I had horrible problems with my line, and I thought they were all the phone company's fault. Turned out that the connections outside in the box were corroded. I cleaned them up and went from 28.8 being typical, with frequent drops, to being able to stay connected for hours at 50.66. It made a big difference, and it was a five minute fix. I was astonished that it turned out to be so simple. (In my case, we had a huge amount of rain, and my connection was going to pot on rainy days. It was fine after a couple dry days. I figured there was water getting into some little green box somewhere along the way.) > And it isn't as if I'm the _only_ person living > in this house..... I can contemplate a 5MB download, *very* > occasionally, but that's my limit. I make the house payments, so anybody else living here can get over it. :) > So, for me, spending a few bucks to get the CD's posted to me is much less > hassle and takes much less of my time. > > Obviously, this depends on individual circumstances. Indeed. For me it was a question of time. 36 hours is a long time, but still faster than waiting several days for CDs to arrive in the mail. Cheaper too, for me. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
