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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: dennis <dennis@et.htp.com>
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On Sun, 25 Jun 1995, dennis wrote:

> internet provider make sure that your provider has high-speed connectivity,
> because a 56k line to a router with a 56k connection only yields 28k to the
> "real" net.

  Not true.  I temporarily extended a 56k line once through two load 
balanced 28.8k dial lines.  FTP transfers of gzip'ped binaries was always 
around 5K/s.  

Tom