[rollei_list] Re: time for show and......
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 20:02:20 -0500
At 07:42 PM 6/1/2016, Richard wrote:
I belong to about twenty mailing lists. Nearly all now allow
binary attachments including JPGs. Most modern mail clients can be
set to ignore posts over a certain size or eliminate
attachments. Until a year or so ago I was on a dial-up, very slow
so attachments were a PITA. I am now on a DSL with about a 20Mb
download rate so attachments don't bother me.
That is remarkable for DSL. (Copper all the way?)
Actually I think DSL has a copper distance limit, forgot the number,
bet Dick knows. ATT DSL sales guys come by every few months and I
ask them "Where is the fiber-to-copper transition?" They haven't the
slightest idea what I'm talking about but I know it's far beyond the
standard distance DSL copper limit. Every slightly technical person
in this relatively new development has gone from cable, to DSL, to
satellite, and then returned to cable.
In my case I just down-sized my Cox cable speed to save a few bucks
because I don't need what they offer. Three of the 4 computers in
this house are on a wireless router working through walls, etc, and
they still get 20-30 Mb/sec downloads.* Upload is slower but that's
generally transparent to me. A lot of the uploads run in the
background anyhow.
The slow lists are those that retain, on line, everything that has
been posted, and you have to wait for a full thread to download
before you can start doing anything, lucky we don't have that version.
DAW
*Notice the lower case "b".
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