Re: Vulcan.NET: next Clipper/VO?

Geoff Schaller wrote:
> Dick,
>
> 5GB is nothing these days.
>
> Geoff

It is huge. Still is these days, and will be so for the next decade.
I have got plenty of friends that live at places all overall Europe 
where there is no broadband access (not even mobile phones!). Countries 
like France, Germany, Belgium.  Last year I stayed with a friend in the 
French Pyrenees and there I have again known the (almost forgotten) 
pleasure to surf the net with a 56 K modem. An awful experience but 
those people have got to do it like that every day. In fact, even simple 
webpages like google mail take 3 minutes to load.

Yesterday I was in an office of ours in the UK. Only 10 miles from 
London (Purfleet). The BT broadband access we've got there has the 
dazzling speeds of ... 512 K.  Faster is not possible, because "just a 
little bit too far away in the Docks". I had to do a 50 MB download from 
McAfee. Took me 25 minutes!

Here, at the office in Antwerp, we have had broadband access for years 
but limited to 1.8 megabit. Only since a few months, we are at 4 
megabit.

etcetera etcetera.

So I entirely agree with Dick that it is insane to offer 5 GB downloads. 
Even 300 MB downloads is madness (imagine being on a 56 K analogue 
internet access and Windows update starts doing one of its famous +200 
MB downloads behind your back?).

-- 
Paul