Posted by dorayme on 07/21/07 01:34

In article <11505$46a159f0$40cba7b3$18542@NAXS.COM>,
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
> > In article <f3cd3$46a149e5$40cba7b3$21476@NAXS.COM>,
> > "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Neredbojias wrote:
> >>
> >>> Btw, with all your money, how come you don't have broadband? Live a
> >>> little, don't be so cheap!
> >>>
> >> All my money! Hee hee. I wish I could, not an option here. This is the
> >> USA we're 3rd-world when it comes to the the net. They have been teasing
> >> me with PBL (Broadband over PowerLine) But after more that 3 years I
> >> think it is more vapor-ware.
> >
> > You can't get satellite?
> >
> Ooh yesssss! They've dropped the price form $849 setup to only $449!,
> plus $79 per month...a bit steep for a poor starving artist.
> Additionally is asynchronous downloading nice but upload not much better
> than my dialup. Number of friends have gotten it around here...uptime
> hasn't been too impressive.

Well, it is not cheap, that is true. You need a corporate client
with some bucckeroos to make it worthwhile. Just a thought for
you: you may be able to pick up some corporate work for printing
and offer to supply your artwork via server; these days, everyone
is rushing to China to get things printed. It is a great
convenience for the printer, wherever they are, to have access to
artwork and the pics online. No need to burn to CD and post, also
great if you realise a mistake has been made or the company or
printer asks for "after last minute" changes! But one does need
reliable and reasonable upload speed, you are right to mention
this bottleneck.

The other thing that might make it economical for you is that you
can receive biggish pics and material from clients to do your
work, either for artwork or websites; for the former, it is
obvious, for the latter, it saves having to keep insisting that
big pics are not needed for website and please send only...

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dorayme

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