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[Patrick Coleman]

AFAIK most dialup providers don't do compression, though the protocol
supports it - it's possible you're just used to the speed (or perhaps
more websites have started being less bandwidth-conscious)... I
recently got shaped to 64k for about a month and it was awful :)
-Patrick

On 4/27/06, Caleb Duggan <caleb.duggan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah.... its cable not ADSL, does the same apply for cable?
>
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 04:07:01 +0800, Daniel Pearson <gpearson at iinet.net.au>
> wrote:
>
> > As I understand it.. it's due to there being no compression on the ADSL,
> > like you would get on a dialup connection.. shoot me down if I'm wrong :)
> >
> > Caleb Duggan wrote:
> >> well how big can xorg be? i remember i used to download like 100mb in
> >> a night on dial-up......cant be too much more than that can
> >> it?.....tho my internet seems slower than dial up was but it might
> >> just be because im used to a connection which "theoretically" can
> >> reach 8mb/s(depending on how many people in the street are using it).



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