<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>On May 27, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Roy van der Westhuizen wrote:</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>After hassles and major expense with ISDN, I acquired a satellite</DIV><DIV>ADSL, cheap version giving me 256 up and 64k down. Of course I find</DIV><DIV>the speed heavenly, but then a one eyed man...</DIV><DIV>Question is, can I operate a iSight on it or is the bandwidth too</DIV><DIV>slow? The Johannesburg Apple store were of the opinion I could.</DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Yes, you can. I'd suggest limiting bandwidth to 200 kpbs in iChat;</DIV><DIV>you don't want it to try and use all your bandwidth.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>This said, you must have 256 k up and 64 K down, since upload speed</DIV><DIV>is always higher than download.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Kirk</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV>Thanks Kirk, but now I am confused as I was of the opinion that it is the downstream speed which is the higher. I note that I dl at speeds of 32 kbps or more. The following is from the telkom.co.za site relating to "Spacestream"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><I>Downstream speeds up to 512Kbps, starting at 64Kbps</I></DIV><DIV><I>Upstream speeds up 128Kbps, starting at 16Kbps</I></DIV><DIV>(Mine being the "cheap 256 and 64 packet costing "only" $300/month!).</DIV><DIV><I><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></I></DIV><DIV>This raises another question, will my communication be limited to voice or be okay for visuals?</DIV><DIV>And another comes to my. How will I communicate with those poor benighted souls who have PC's?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Regards,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Roy</DIV></BODY></HTML>