[lug] OT: Wake On Lan

[D. Stimits]

John Dollison wrote:
> It used to be 3+ MBit downloads, until AT&T sphinctered it down to 1.5 MBit
> so they could sell us our own surplus for an ADDITIONAL $40/month!  (This
> change took place a few months ago, I've already spoken to 2 ATT engineers
> about it.)

It is still an outstanding deal. Part of the change is an improvement 
that most people won't notice: In various locations with new cable 
service, upload is no longer 256k, but 512k. My understanding is that 
upload speeds will go from 256k to 512k in other locations (slowly, over 
time, perhaps over years). The upload speed is very nice for people who 
play games over the network (still, a 56k modem uploads at half the 
speed it downloads, so on a connect that gets 50k download, compare 25k 
upload to 512k upload...it is astounding, even at worst performance 
moments).
  :)

D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com