[PLUG] dsl speeds

[garrett]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Will Andrews wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 06:20:32PM -0500, Jason Dubrow wrote:
> > Yes I know, 140k/s was off ethernet over a 386 router with 4mb ram in
> > hawkins
> 
> CPU speed and RAM doesn't really matter for bandwidth.  ;-)
> You could probably do 140KB/sec on a 286 with 512k of memory.  ;-)
> Of course, that just brings the problem of finding such a machine that
> will run a half-modern operating system.  ;-)

CPU and RAM do matter .. depending on your network loads and your routing
you could drop packets if you're box won't keep up.