On 20/12/2003, at 5:55 PM, Vladimir James wrote:
Some may not be aware that other conditions besides ISPs may affect
download efficiency. For example, ancient Telstra cabling in my
district
restricts my 56k connection to about 30k, often less. Clearly some of
us
are more fortunate than others.
I'm waiting for some wag to tell me to move to another district :-)
I'm wondering if this is entirely due to the Telstra network. A client
I visited last week has his son staying with him over the Christmas
period. The client's (slot-loading, MacOS 9) iMac has only ever
connected at 30k, despite all attempts to convince it to do otherwise.
His son needed to connect his barnd-new 15" Powerbook (US original
running Panther) to the Internet, so we took the modem cable from the
iMac, plugged it into his Powerbook, and got a 56k connection. Same
cables, same ISP, same time of day.
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Peter Hinchliffe
Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, ::::::::::::::::::::::::
Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913
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