:: 56k would be marvelous. I'm 7km from the CO, and I'm lucky if I :: can sustain 33k6. I could describe how this feels after having :: spent the last year on the end of a 3M/640k ADSL circuit, 22ms :: RTT from Chicago, but I don't want to offend anybody's delicate :: sensibilities. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. However, this brings up something that I've been thinking of... a registry or map of err... desirable locations, for people who need half-decent connections. Telecom's Web page, where you enter a phone number to get an estimate of the DSL connection speed, isn't really accurate enough, and not terribly useful overall without geographic mapping. -- Juha --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog