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- Path: mariner.cris.com!Rug-rat
- From: Rug-rat@cris.com (Thomas Pinto)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: 128 internet modem request
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 22:11:14 GMT
- Organization: Concentric Internet Services
- Message-ID: <4dbv22$i30@spectator.cris.com>
- References: <4d69gd$4b8@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> <4d7rkf$e55@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4da6vb$ijp@tiger.utw.com>
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- The Perry-beast (pbeast@stellar.comnet.com) wrote:
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- : Mr. Neus may get a chuckle out of this: a fellow I know, a _very_ new
- : 28.8Kbps modem owner, has claimed to me that he has downloaded at 20,000
- : cps; oh, that's exactly what he meant, because he stated that figure again
- : and said that it was no typo! Um, yeah: almost 8x compression, and he had
- : previously stated that he has a 115.2Kbps connection between his computer
- : and modem? He has as much credibility here as when he claimed to get 5000
- : to _6000_ cps with his old 14.4K modem.
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- haha...that guy is definately on some serious crack! heheh!
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