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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:43:27 GMT, Paul Robinson wrote:

> If you save 20Mb, over a reliable 56Kb modem, you've saved them somewhere
> in the region of one and a half hours... I think you guys are too used to
> your broadband... :)

And you're forgetting that, as I said in my original reply, people with
56K modems usually benefit from hardware compression over their link
anyway.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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