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...Astra's satellites means that music, software and games can be downloaded fast, at around 2MB/second. A graphic-rich video game like Arabian Nights, which Europe Online now offers over the Internet, takes only 42 seconds to download via Europe Online vs. 32 minutes using a regular 56KB/second telephone dial-up connection. The reason Europe Online is so speedy is that its network uses multiple technologies for the up-link to the satellite. Among them: cable modems, integrated services digital network (ISDN) lines, digital subscriber lines (DSL), wireless application protocol (WAP) and other broadband distribution systems...
...example, a dial-up modem that connects to the Net over copper has a typical download speed of 56 kilobits--or 56,000 bits--per second, at which rate it would take nearly 10 minutes to download a three-minute song. By contrast, a modem connected to a TV cable that feeds into a fiber-optic loop could claim that tune in under a minute. Yet even today only about 6% of U.S. households have cable modems or digital subscriber lines, which carry compressed data over copper wires at broadband speed. But that hasn't stopped carriers from blanketing...
...Before the Fall, I was an innocent, and pure, and un-Napstered. This was mainly because it was difficult for me to get Napster; we have a vicious and unyielding corporate firewall here at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, and I was using a World War II surplus dial-up modem at home...
...Nothing's real until it's perceived," Dorff says. And no Internet movie can be applauded until it's downloaded. At a hefty 166 megabytes, Quantum Project can be smoothly swallowed only by the relatively few PCs with super high-speed broadband connections. The majority of Websters, with 56K dial-up modems, could take all night to access the movie--if their computers didn't crash first. And this one, alas, isn't worth the wait...
...perhaps because they were understandably suspicious of the question, they replied yes. And now when they try to fire up a connection to, say, Mindspring or AT&T or UUNET or any other Net-service provider, their AOL dial-up muscles in and blocks access to their old ISP. Some 7 million of AOL's 21 million subscribers have upgraded to 5.0. While no one knows how many of them are afflicted, it was apparently enough to attract lawyers...