On 20 January 2008, Justin Findlay wrote: > I pay $40/month for 14 Mib up and down and I can run it at max > throughput indefinitely. I seeded all 92 gentoo torrents for a month > once to test this out. :-) Here in Utah, USA we have the largest > community fiber network in the country called UTOPIA. I'm only on > iProvo, but on UTOPIA they can get 50 Mib for a residential link.
You lucky bastard over there in Utopia! ;-) My ADSL is 256Kb downstream and 64Kb upstream. I pay about USD50 per month with a data cap of 1GB per month. Still, this is far better and cheaper than the dialup connection I have had before. The so-called digital divide isn't all that much about technology, computers or other gadgets.; It's about knowledge and, mainly, bandwidth and its costs. I still have customers that run a 100 workstations business on a 128Kb line, paying more than USD1000 per month for it. Alright, we are straying far from the topic here. Good luck to Dale! Uwe -- If a man speaks in a forest, and no woman listens to him, is he still lying? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
