I'm not sure how the rates compare around the country/world, but I pay $40 a month for DSL service. A 56k modem downloads at 7 KiloBytes per second. This DSL service downloads at 160 KiloBytes per second. That's 120 MegaBytes in 12.5 minutes. Of course you don't usually get those speeds on limewire, but 5, simultaneous, 30 KiloByte downloads isn't uncommon (56 minutes for that 120 MB).

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