Whjat are you guys doing that you actually *need* more than 512K and 30Gigs a month?
I'm quite a heavy user and my wife runs her business from home and we hardly ever go beyond 3 to 4Gigs a month. I can only imagine that contention is a problem for you, or you're into gaming on the Internet?
FWIW my connection consistently runs at around 420K (I test it when I am bored) and we sometimes have wait up to a whole 4 or 5 seconds for pages to load. How terrible :wink:
Downloads of huge files takes time, but they don't lock up your computer -- you can still do other things while the 'post' arrives can't you, or are you a serial worker?
I often work from home and my email (notoriously slow and cumbersome Lotus Notes) runs faster on my wireless link and broadband connection than on the company 100MB network in the office! There are reasons for that, but who cares, really? A few seconds is nothing, not even enough to brew a cuppa as we used to be able to do when downloading some stuff 10 years ago. I miss the excuses...
Now try and convince me you really need a Pentium if all you're doing is writing letters and doing basic calculations.
Oh, I forgot that Mega$oft makes sure that all current software requires at least a mega-giga processor and several terabytes of hard disk just to install...
