Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:50:17 11/12/01
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On November 09, 2001 at 18:57:26, Theo van der Storm wrote: >On November 05, 2001 at 17:27:14, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On November 05, 2001 at 14:39:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On November 05, 2001 at 07:56:42, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>>>On November 04, 2001 at 14:52:47, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>>> >>>>not restarting your program is allowed, i fail to find that >>>>anywhere in the tournament rules. >Not having the time for not eating my lunch is no fun, is not it? > >>i didn't have time for that. i already had uploaded with superhumane >Indeed, you defeat humanity :-) > >>effort a new book to the quad and the executable. The ISDN line >>was dead slow. like 500 bytes a second or so (connected to wanadoo.nl >>may i ask you, this already gives for 2 years problem after problem, >>whereas xs4all.nl i never have had problems with, perhaps Theo next >>year uses other provider?). > >We get only a single analogue POTS-line from their ISDN-2 configuration. > >Two years ago I did switch to another provider and things improved >as you pointed out then. This time it did not seem to be necessary, >but another problem accured: when a call on the other channel came in >and was answered at the bar, our connection was sometimes lost. >Sygate HomeNet sometimes locked up the modem in my Win98 system >beyond recovery, so I had to reboot, which took a lot of time... >PLEASE spare me your Win98 remarks! > >We can try another provider, although somebody reminded me, >that things got a lot better/more reliable after you turned stand-alone. > >>Despite that isdn is on paper like 16KB/s or something? >In principle a single ISDN-channel would be 64kbit/s (=6.4kB/s), >but again we get only a single POTS-line with 33.6kbit/s connection. > >Theo (a Plain Old Telephone System user) problem was bandwidth to USA in this case from wanadoo. it was 500 bytes/second at most. that's wanadoo thing. not even that you use 33.6kbit. Note i've got a 56k6 modem here which is sitting idle because i'm adsl nowadays. i'll bring it with me next time :)
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