*L*...my home pc is a bit better than my 486dx. It's an amd64 3200. Not a high end PC, but not a slouch either. <br><br><b><i>"Michael T. Dean" <mtdean@thirdcontact.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Dylan R. Semler wrote:<br><br>>Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>><br>>>Dylan R. Semler wrote:<br>>><br>>>>Nick Gomez wrote:<br>>>><br>>>>>I'm running Gentoo on an amd64 at home and I connect through my <br>>>>>companies firewall, over the internet and then through my home <br>>>>>firewall. My home broadband connection is limited to 300 kbs upstream <br>>>>>and I still have a pretty responsive desktop. Although I can't watch a <br>>>>>video stream, I can do just about anything else. Mostly it's like I'm <br>>>>>sitting in front of my home PC.<br>>>>><br>>>>300 kbs
upload?! man, what service provider do you have. Comcast here <br>>>>caps everything at 40 or 60 kbs upload, i can't do anything remotely.<br>>>><br>>>You sure you're using the same units? 512kbps (kilobits per second) <br>>>works out to about 45KB/s (kilobytes per second) actual throughput. 40 <br>>>to 60kbps is about equivalent to a dialup modem's downstream bandwidth, <br>>>so it sounds awful low for a cable system's upstream bandwidth.<br>>><br>>Well you may be on to something. I was speaking in terms of KB/s, I <br>>guess I assumed Nick was as well the way he described it as like sitting <br>>in front of his home PC, because it certainly isn't like that for me. <br>> <br>><br><br>He never said what his home PC is. Perhaps it's a 486-SX/25. ;)<br><br>>Sorry for the confusion/wasting of the time.<br>><br><br>Happens to the best of us:
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