Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo <carlosm3011@gmail.com> wrote:
Hats off!! You should post some pictures!
As in ASCII art pictures? Because my life revolves around ASCII text and I abhor anything that isn't ASCII text, I do not own a camera of any kind, never have and likely never will. MS
And you live in a cabin in the woods, pedal a generator to get the router up and the router is connected to a 56K Dial-up morem? ;-) Gary B
Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo <carlosm3011@gmail.com> wrote:
Hats off!! You should post some pictures! As in ASCII art pictures? Because my life revolves around ASCII text and I abhor anything that isn't ASCII text, I do not own a camera of any kind, never have and likely never will.
MS
Much of Maine is not covered by broadband and companies are still using dialup routers. Much of the US (70%) is not covered by broadband and the only internet connection is dialup. --Curtis On 11/3/2010 11:13 AM, Gary Baribault wrote:
And you live in a cabin in the woods, pedal a generator to get the router up and the router is connected to a 56K Dial-up morem? ;-)
Gary B
Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo<carlosm3011@gmail.com> wrote:
Hats off!! You should post some pictures! As in ASCII art pictures? Because my life revolves around ASCII text and I abhor anything that isn't ASCII text, I do not own a camera of any kind, never have and likely never will.
MS
Curtis Maurand wrote:
Much of Maine is not covered by broadband and companies are still using dialup routers. Much of the US (70%) is not covered by broadband and the only internet connection is dialup.
That is kinda bad, but to put it into perspective, you have free, or at least one flat fee local calls in the US. Which is just the subscription you pay each month (between $20-$30 per month for basic local call connectivity). In most if not all European countries (and likely most other countries too) you pay a fee per time unit (say per minute) for local calls. Which makes it prohibitively expensive to have an always on dialup connection, or even more than a couple of hours a day. I used an always on dialup connection for years here in the USA and I liked it a lot, seeing as I came from a "pay per minute for local calls" country. Greetings, Jeroen -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 12:44 -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
In most if not all European countries (and likely most other countries too) you pay a fee per time unit (say per minute) for local calls.
in addition to a relatively high monthly "standing charge" subscription fee I might add! In the UK, this has really only changed in the last 3 or 4 years for most users of the national telco, of whom in it now possible to buy a "option plan" of free calls each month at extra charge above the basic. It's no coincidence that I learned to type very, very fast in the early 1980s, before global email became prevalent for the public and the majority of comms were done on BBSs of one sort or another. Only mail retrieval could be scripted, all "proto-browsing" was done live and against a rapidly-ticking financial clock. Conversations with colleagues across the pond were filled with silent envy for a _very_ long time, until approx 1997 iirc :) Gord
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