Network question

On 1 Jan 2007 at 11:03, Rick Bensene wrote: It's the fastest it comes right now--I'm over 10 wire-miles from the CO, but Qwest bought some land from me and installed a terminus of some sort about 400 ft. from the house (a 20'x20' concrete pad with lots of big boxes--and a Qwest service truck tha seems to be parked daily--on it). They tell me that Real Soon Now, they'll have 5Mb/sec service available. "Real Soon Now" in my experience with Qwest seems to be about 3-4 years. Still wondering where that 42Mb/sec service is that the telcos promised the FCC they'd have deployed in 2006. Qwest seems to be more interested in selling me Dish TV and mobile services than providing good net access. The maddening thing is that there's a local wireless net provider here with excellent pricing. I can see their transmitter tower two hills over from my window, but they nothing pointing in my direction nor do they plan to. And cable doesn't exist out here in the boonies. BTW, manually altering the setting on the 100BaseT NICs does appear to make a significant difference in performance, although Win2K does appear to be doing the cybernetic equivalent of passing a kidney stone when settings are being changed. As far as file movement between systems goes, 1MB is a big transfer for me--I mostly move source code, executables and small data files around. Cheers, Chuck