OT: Take A Look And Can You Explain It?

[Arkcon]

Back in the day when I used telephone modems to connect, I always got better than 28.8 (that was as fast as my modem was) -- IIRC, something around 32-35.

See, Delphi (or was it Sprintnet? so long ago) stopped adding a surcharge at 6pm, and I jumped on right away. Since only the east coast was on -- it was fast. By the time it was 6pm on the west coast, the network was so crowded it slowed to a crawl -- for everyone else.

Hmmm...maybe now that everyone is on broadband, dialup networks are becoming less congested. Hmmm...I recently unpluged my modem card and disabled XP's service, didn't think I ever need it again. But now I wonder ...

[ March 05, 2004, 12:46: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[Kamog]

I'm using dialup with a 33.6 modem and the fastest download rate I usually get is 4 K/sec or less.

[DeadZone]

On rare occations my 600k cable (which normally does 60-80kB/s sometimes does upto 300kB/s

So spikes are not just for dial ups

I really wish I could have that speed all of the time tho