Quite a bit faster than my 300 baud modem back in the 80's, but comparable to my 56k modem in the 90's.

A very important piece of history, there.

L0LZ0RS!!!1!

I admit I was being deliberately provocative. Mainly because every time this issue has been raised by the Sift Gods lately, it's been shot down like a cold stone zeppelin with lead boots on Jupiter. And while I am very much in favour of involving the community in decision-making processes, I am against pandering to those with a vested interest in preventing change.

That, and I'm grumpy because a Bell Canada / Rogers Wireless snafu has left me without DSL for a week and I'm now surfing on 56k dialup. Eeeurgh!

By the way, I think the best method of shortening the queue time would be to tighten it by an hour every day for as long as necessary. For a Code Warrior of Lucky's gargantuan stature, that should be a snap.

i remember when i bought a 33.6 modem ... that thing was blazing fast. then 56k, then 56k X2 (better known as V.90) ... awesome!!