ADSL - Only for byte-suckers

Sometimes it’s just necessary to take a time to clean up the HDD. Today I finally had time to do it (Free space: 400 Mb!!).

Currently I only have cheap CD-R disks that my CD-Writer doesn't like, so I decided to send data that I infrequently use to my Work's PC through a VPN to burn it later at office.

After I've had sent the first MP3 directory (200 Mbytes of great Jacques Loussier music that doesn't need to be stored in my HDD!) I remembered those old, bulky 300 BPS modems we used for saving time by transferring "large amounts of data" through telephone lines.

I can remember how I had to prepare the download of the 1 Mb big (small?!) Fidonet Nodelist that had to be downloaded periodically. The transfer took several hours and had to be done at night because it was cheaper and the risk of interference was lower!

Now I own an ADSL and can download huge amounts of data in seconds, but the upload rate is just enough for byte-suckers but not for people who use to transfer bidiretionally. At 128Kbps it takes more than one minute to upload a megabyte of data: a CD takes more than 10 hours!!!

If I only could upload at the rate I can download... If I only could pay a SDSL!!

Gik.-