Yes we either have caps and monthly sum or pay per information unit; typically a MB at around 6 cents which can stack up in a hurry if a scammer has got hold of the kids. Heaps of (ordinary) people here have had monthly ISP bills exceeding $3000. Which is as much as I earn in a year.
Mozilla and Firefox are far too difficult for me; I just like to put the coin in the slot and watch the movie.
Time on your hands? Google "Brunel". Now theres an engineer for you; all 5ft4 of him. Silver spoon job like most of my heroes (Ricardo and the Stevenson(lighthouse) clan) but he did some good things and survived some monumental stuffups.
Cheers
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bowers [mailto:pbowers@pipingdesign.com]
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 10:20 PM
To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] PMS - MS Project vs Prima Vera and
Alternative s
You have monthly download caps then? Our common metric is megaBITS per second without caps. Not that I use a huge amount of the capacity.
Simultaneous phone line availability was the deciding factor here too.
About a year ago I was stuck with 28.8 temporarily and it wasn't really all that bad, actually. You just have to plan efficiently and read while other pages are downloading in the background. Using a tab-enabled browser like Mozilla or Firefox helps a lot. Of course, the pipingdesign.com site doesn't look as nifty without the semi-transparent menu drop shadows and stuff when using these browsers.
Paul
> We have dialup and DSL. I have been using a trimmed version of DSL for
> about 3 years. Runs at about 10 -25 kBPS (measured, not claimed) and
can
> download 5GB/month at a fixed rate of $50 - your money. As I like
music,
> this used to have some advantages.
> We have faster schemes, but they are expensive, and how much porn can
> you watch? I went to DSL so I could keep my phone line open while
> connected. The scheme I am on is about to be canned - I thought it too
> good to be true and the ISP has woken up to it. Will go for slightly
> faster and
3GB
> cap because that's what is the new offer. I find the speed claims
> irrelevant if you are after text information.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Bowers [mailto:pbowers@pipingdesign.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 9:30 PM
> To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] PMS - MS Project vs Prima Vera and
> Alternative s
>
>
> Seriously though, how are net connections there? Are you limited to
> dial-up?
>
> Up here Cable/DSL is pretty inexpensive (about twice the cost of 56.6
at
> CAN$20/mo) and gives 1.5 (and in some areas 3.0 mbps, Bell seems to
keep
> upgrading it without our permission) download speeds. For me at least,
> all this bandwidth is overkill except when it comes time to download
the
> inevitable multi-megabyte Windows Update.
>
> Paul
> Great White North
>
>
> > On the contrary
> >
> > I have got the 56.6 "Voidpro" package and am expecting the hole will
> be
> > dug before I start. Unless the "standard terms and conditions" kick
> in;
> > in which case the deliverable will be an image of a hole that
someone
> > else dug. But Wait......... Theres More>>>>>
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Bowers [mailto:pbowers@pipingdesign.com]
> > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 7:37 PM
> > To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] PMS - MS Project vs Prima Vera and
> > Alternative s
> >
> >
> > Steve said:
> >
> > > Yes I know if 2 men can dig a hole in 8 hours, then 2000 men
cannot
> > dig
> > > the same hole in 28.8 seconds; that's why I'm here.
> >
> >
> > You need the new broadband hi-speed hole-digging modem. 28.8 is *SO*
> > 1997.
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