Re: [Sheflug] Re: bounce

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, wulfie wrote:

> > of a pain unless you do a lot of BIG downloads.
>
> Like KDE2.1 & kernel 2.4.0 ?

No. I said big downloads. Like checking out the XFree CVS tree.
A kernel only takes an hour and a bit to d/l. KDE is broken down into
packages. I've downloaded both with a 2 hour cut off. (Also if you use the
connection over midnight the cut off seems to fail :)

> The pennies all seem to add up to fifteen quid more or less, prices are
> floating around to match AOL (or so it seems). BT's SurfTogether seems a
> very poor offering in comparison. As I said, this was mainly for the trouble
> & bin lids on their Winbox. I'm not even thinking about doing anything
> requiring security over AOL! The Winmodem on this box precludes Linux access
> for the time being anyway.

Not necessarily, there are a few Winmodem drivers around
(www.linmodems.org?).

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