Subj : Fiber Optic Service
To   : Tom Walker
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Dec 04 2004 07:42 pm

Hi Tom (of 1:202/1324),
On Sat, 04 Dec 04 at 12:54 o'clock, you wrote me:

 ->> Upload speed for such a solution is not impressive compared to
 ->> DSL.   Take a look at the threshold speeds (limits) reported at 
 ->>     http://www.galaxybroadband.ca/service-plans.php

 TW>  the mnost important though is the Download speed, Unless you are A
 TW> Pirate Music Site!!  :-)

I agree with the importance of download speed, but I would find upload speed to 
be important for the average user too. More and more I find that even uploading 
digital photos to photo album sites is tedious when I am contending with barely 
26kbps on the upload.  The satellite solutions barely guarantee 50kbps on the 
upload.  So.. if I am already waiting 40 minutes to upload a few meg of 
material, even some PowerPoint files, etc..  I think 20 minutes is still a long 
time.    And with all the freebie 250mb storage capacities that YahooMail, 
Excite, MSN, and Netscape are offering, upload speed to fill all that up is 
important too.  <g>


 TW>  But even becasue of Bandwidth Limitations in the Satellite system
 TW> even down load speeds don't anywhere match either DSL or Cable Modem 
 TW> speeds.

Yup.. the satellite solution has a long way to go for improvement compared to 
the bang for the buck that DSL provides.  But then there is a component of the 
public, myself, for whom a DSL serive is not available, but a satellite 
solution would be.


d(-_-)b  ...August
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