** On Jun 08, Mark Brown scribbled: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:01:39PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > You live in the US. We don't. We are european. We mostly don't have flat > > phone rates. This is why we can't download a lot. > > Never mind broadband access, which is frequently just not avalible > (although this looks to be starting change somewhat). Even if your > access is unmetered downloading some packages is still rather painful. Yup. We're connected to the TEN-155 network with multi-point connection with the USA and soon we'll be connected to the 155Mb/s TeleNordia backbone, but still fetching stuff from behind the ocean is really painful sometimes - to much 10Mb mails, to much streaming, too narrow the connection between the continents... marek
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