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On a broadband connection, for most activities, it will not interfere. I
have the same speed connection at home as in my office; at home, I am
the only user, in the office, there are 6. There is generally no
perceptible difference in performance, mostly because the connection
carries more bandwidth than most servers are putting out - in other
words, even with 6 users, most of its carrying capacity is idle most of
the time. "Two data streams" is something of a misnomer; the information
being sent over your connection isn't really in separate streams - it's
in packets with different addresses. They can, and do, move over the
same connection without really paying attention to each other.
First you say "would not prevent or interfere" then you say "depending".
It can't be both. If someone is downloading data on my line when my
computer is trying to download my data on the same line I do not believe
that their downloading will not interfere with my download. I do not
believe that two data streams can download at the same time on one line
without any affect on each other.
Do public libraries have to pay royalties to authors each time someone
checks out a book?
Are second-hand bookstores illegal?
Of course not - but photocopying a book is. And most of what's called
"sharing" on the Internet involves making a copy of the original
content. That's what violates the copyright laws.
My $.02, that's all.
But to continue the boat-related part of this conversation - anyone use
the new Sprint Vision service? My office is switching to Sprint for
cellphones, and I'm wondering how well it will work for coastal e-mail
and web browsing.
- Tony Elmquist
http://www.seamuffin.com <http://www.seamuffin.com/>
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