Oh poor Piers! What do you do in all the shops proudly displaying signs
that they are “practiCing social distancing”?!!!
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 10:44, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2GB?? If it had been anybody else, AG, I would have questioned whether that
> was a typo for 2Gb!
>
> I am getting rather tired of sales calls from a fibre network provider
> offering a super-duper package of high-speed 300Megabytes/second
> connection.
> I correct them to megabits, and then they just revert to what they said at
> the outset. If you don't understand what you are trying to sell, you ain't
> going to sell much.
>
> Piers
>
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> From: olympus <olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
> Behalf Of Ken Norton
> Sent: 15 February 2021 21:30
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] Earthlink Outage ?dial up? Means?
>
> > American web page designers want to be as high-tech as possible to
> impress themselves, the users, and the rest of the world, while others want
> to convey information to the lowest common denominator, such as those with
> dialup service.
>
> Here in Alaska, we have many remote communities that have either
> satellite or microwave network backhaul. To get ANY semblance of
> usability, we have to resort to a lot of very creative (and expensive)
> tricks to give the users a decent experience.
>
> But on the other hand, I'll have 2GB Internet access here at my house
> shortly. :)
>
> AK Schnozz
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