Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!netsys!vector!nobody From: van-bc!sl@uunet.UU.NET (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: More Thoughts on Starlink Message-ID: Date: 3 Feb 89 18:01:01 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 48, message 10 In article telecom@bu-cs.BU.EDU (TELECOM Moderator) writes: >I'd like to hear the experiences of some of you who subscribe to Starlink >after a month or so of using it. They also claim their 'throughput' is >much faster than Telenet, meaning you would probably spend less time on line >each day. Who knows, maybe you could get done in 12 hours what formerly took >30 hours on PCP? I havn't used either in the past few years, but Tymnet used to have a reputation for pumping data a bit more efficently than Telenet. As I remember Tyment is *not* an X.25 network internally. Does anyone out there have some uptodate info? -- Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532