On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:23:12 +0200, Gail Shaw wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
> news:48495f52$1@news.povray.org...
>> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:14:28 -0400, Warp wrote:
>>
>> > OTOH, 24 Mbit/s ADSL is completely normal
>>
>> In Europe, yes.  In the US, no.  I got an upgrade recently (for free)
>> to 3 Mbps from 1.5.  It's amazing that that still qualifies as
>> "broadband" here in the US.
> 
> Down in my neck of the woods 128kb/s qualifies as broadband :-( 512k
> ADSL's the fastest you can get at a reasonable price.

Ouch.

I can remember wanting to get a T1 to my house, at the low, low price of 
$1,500 a month.

There's no way I could have afforded that then, heck, I couldn't afford 
it *now*.

im

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