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Re:Page Weight Matters by foobarian on Saturday December 22, 2012 @10:26PM (#4958453)
In other words the bandwidth really is something like 6.6 kbps instead of the nominal rate.

(Really, did anyone ever get the nominal 56k modem rate back in the day?)

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Re:Page Weight Matters by keithpeter on Sunday December 23, 2012 @05:36AM (#4959164)
Yes as it happens, pretty close. Unfortunately British Telecom had a policy of dropping data connections after 2 hours in those days...
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Re:Page Weight Matters by masklinn on Sunday December 23, 2012 @05:05AM (#4959121)
No.
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