no it hasn't... Patch4 is for upgrading the internal speed when dealing with large numbers of objects as well as taking away the main bugs within the several formats being loaded natively.
Has nothing to do with the plethira of commands in the debug DLLs (which are clearly marked)
As for that Pneumatic you must be on Telewest within a or very close to a Major city. They are the only company with rates that low!
which would be fine if that Oftel crap had really enabled all the Cables companies to fight over all the areas independantly - but even after 10years they're still fighting over the individual territories. And around here Hemel Hemstead is the only town with Telewest, everywhere else its either NTL or BT ... or ofcourse FreeServe or AOL - but you MUST have a BT line to use them.
NTL give you a good deal £15/month for a 128kb Broadband - which includes installation, the modem blah blah... however it neglects to mention in large print that you MUST be a digital cable subscriber - right there is an extra £15/month for the basic package.
Prices for Broadband all over the UK vary so much that really THAT is the WORST country you could pick as an example. And there isn't any bright future insight for making it more competitive because each area will STILL be owned by particular cables companies.
Cable&Wireless, they're packages are just absurd for Broadband... And yes the FreeServe and AOL offers do look interesting on the surface, but as you need to subscribe to BT you find its cheaper not to.
It's the exact same story with Cable/Satillite deals, you get discounts going for one over the other just to find hidden costs.
And don't say speed inhibitors are just the States Problems, its ALL outgoing requests for files - Lycos/Geocities is one of the biggest offenders, not only is the monthly useage set to something stupid like 1GB/week but also they have a capped speed of 128kb.
It so petty and small minded to believe that cause YOU have something cheap that means everyone else should!
Wake up and smell the coffee mate, cause quite frankly with thinking like that how do you expect to ever get enough people willing to actually come veiw and software you develop?
Sit there with a big neon sign against a 2MB download "WARNING DIAL UP USERS MAY DOWNLOAD THIS SLOW!"
pah! stop thinking your new toy is there for everyone cause it isn't and you'd be wise to listen up to see how many people ARE still on dialup.
Especially as you'll be capturing the budget market more than those with cash flowing from thier pockets. The only reason a majority of people HERE have good connections is cause they connect through thier schools and uni's etc... which they don't pay for.
I'm not on the T1 OC/255 cause i simply wanted to download games quicker ... my isdn 64k modem can download things fast enough for my likes - and i don't really care much for broadband. Because once you get in a busy area like say anywhere in LA, it starts to lag because too many people access it. Unlike most i don't have the luxary of staying up all nite simply to use the internet.
Add to this whenever i download things there are usually a number of proxies going on so that no matter where i am i can have my home desktop to download software and run it from, i then have the desktop here which will reboot every 12hours unless i'm using it which is the main proxy which i access the net by ... then i have the T1 for connecting to every other machine with Zero Sync.
I can collect and send media and such to work as if i was on that very computer, i can even use a rendering machine there rather than at home - grab a 1gb raw format compress at home whilst having it render a second batch.
The work is always there and online if anyone at work requires it... i don't have the T1 for personal use right now. Even once it is fully setup it'll still only really be for work connections and the second line will be for FMTau Labs Website - I still use my modems daily.
For some of us it isn't cost efficient or sound to have a broadband connection. It would be nice, but that about all it would be. It's a luxary nothing more - so you should understand that very very well!
Anata aru kowagaru no watashi! 
