I am running a 33K modem on a Pentium MMX 233... I have a 6.4 gig hard drive and that is almost full (about 700megs left)... Now heres some interesting facts...

Speed of Modem	Time to download 6.4 Gigs
14,400	1113 hrs 46 min 40 secs
28,800	568 : 53 : 20
33,600	479 : 3 : 51
56 Kps	253 : 58 : 5
64K ISDN	222 : 13 : 20
128K ISDN	111 : 6 : 40
T1	9 : 28 : 53
T2	2 : 22 : 13
Satellite	0 : 36 : 24
T3	0 : 18 : 57
T4	0 : 3 : 9
OC1	0 : 17 : 7
OC3	0 : 5 : 38
OC12	0 : 1 : 27
OC48	0 : 0 : 21
These estimations are not perfect but very close...

So to download the entire contents of my hard drive I would have to take 479 hours plus a bit assuming we were able to remain connected and constantly at that speed... Now people with T4 connections spend 3 minutes to do the same thing... Hmmm... And we wonder why so many people are getting annoyed here in the Great land of Australia... I feel that some cable companies could make a lot of $$$ MONEY $$$... But they have to give us a good deal of course... If only Telstra would release more of thier cables to the Net and we would have the speed we require... So our multi billion dollar company is now going to screw us all over a little more by keeping speeds LOW, prices HIGH and technology at a world minimum... Ever tried to get a $ tip in Australia... *chuckle*