[Elecraft] 21st century connectivity

[Kevin Rock]

Currently I have a 21.6 Kbps connection to the Internet.  Sometimes it gets as fast as 26.4 Kbps!  The nearest broadband connection is 20 miles away.  I have no hope they will ever bring cable, fiber, or WiMAX to anywhere close enough to effect my connection speed.  A one megabyte attachment chokes my email system for about fifteen minutes.  Larger files?  Hopefully I can maintain a connection overnight or it is no use even trying.  Luckily I do drive into Portland, Oregon where they do have faster connections so I take a hard drive along and all the URLs I've collected over the week so I can grab the files.  No, broadband connections are not available in all locations.  The U.S. has a long way to go to catch up with Japan, Korea, or Denmark.
   Kevin.  KD5ONS

-----Original Message-----
>From: Lyle Johnson <kk7p at wavecable.com>
>Sent: Jul 25, 2007 7:42 PM
>To: Ken Kopp <k0pp at acninc.net>
>Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: 21st century assembly "manual"
>
>> The reality is that many of us are confined to dial-up and always will 
>> be.  (;-(
>
>Say it isn't true!  Can't you get BPL, the answer to everything, in your 
>area?
>
>Lyle KK7P
>
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