On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Herb Peyerl wrote:

> Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:49:34 +0100.
>              <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403021245390.8044@Tempo.Update.UU.SE>
>  > On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Thomas Miller wrote:
>  > > Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org> wrote:
>  > > > My personal opinion is that 5Mbits/sec is far enough ahead of the
>  > > > curve for general Internet users (ignoring large businesses, educational
>  > > > institutions, etc.) that you will find it hard to see that kind of
>  > > > performance in practice.
>  >
>  > Depends on your country, I guess. In Sweden, the ISPs are now up to
>  > 28 MB/s for private use (cost is something like $40 per month).
>
> Yeah, but they ran fiber to every boathouse and getting an OC-3 across town
> is as simple as calling up Lotta down at the switchboard.  :-)

It's nice we got something out of the hysteria and IT-boom a few years
ago. All the rest have gone up in smoke.

	Johnny

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