Two Bob <dept9@iprimus.com.au> wrote:

>>>>>>> Telstra/Telecom has always been the bottleneck as far as speed goes. I remember when they
>>>>>>> said that 75bpm was quite sufficient, and they wouldnt budge from that high speed even
>>>>>>> though everyone was screaming for better speeds.

>>>>>> And Telecom/Telstra never ever offered anything that did
>>>>>> 75bpm so they cant have ever made that claim anyway.

>>>>> Pity about VIATEL / Discovery.

>>> Actually that was 1200/75

>> Nothing like your original pathetic excuse for bullshit and at that time they also
>> offered faster than that, for a higher prices, you pathetic excuse for a bullshit artist.

> As I have said in the past, comprehension is lacking with a few ppl around here.

You in spades.

> My above speed comment (1200/75) was in relation to Viatel.

Pity that your original stupid claim is just plain wrong with 1200/75
which was ALREADY faster than 75bpm even on the uplink.

AND if you wanted faster than 1200/75 it was available
to anyone prepared to pay for that anyway.

> My original claim was nearly 20 years before that, when modems were the size of suitcases and had
> half a dozen cards in them. Do you remember those days??

Yep, and they were ALREADY faster than 75bpm,
you pathetic excuse for a bullshit artist.

> I do, cause I attended one of the first schools in modems.

Pity you couldnt even manage to work out what speed
they were running at, or anything else at all, either.

> Oh, thats right, you were sitting at the back of the class using a false name. After all, someone
> said you were with the PMG for 40 years )

Only a fool like you buys the bullshit the stupid kids in here spew.

>>>> That was nothing like the maximum rate it could do.

>>> Yes with a faster modem it could go a heap faster, but telecom
>>> didnt have the foresight to support the higher speeds.

>> Pig ignorant lie. You were welcome to pay for
>> a faster service if you wanted one, and we did.

>>>> And that wasnt even the upstream speed of that anyway.

>>>> That silly old fart has never ever had a fucking clue, and thats
>>>> obviously why even telecom gave it the bums rush, right out the door.

>>> Other way around, I couldnt get out of there quick enough. I was
>>> dying of bordom and lack of a decent wage. I went to a company who
>>> paid 3 times as much and give you something to do when a contract
>>> was filled. In telecom if we had a 4 month contract and we filled
>>> it in 4 weeks we had to sit on our arse until the 4 months were over.

>> You were clearly so stupid that you didnt even notice that you could
>> have faster than 1200/75 if you wanted it, and that that aint 75bpm
>> anyway.