Many on this list will remember when dial-up was the best we could get. I go back far enough to recall painfully slow modems operating at 300 baud, transmitting text only to and from a bulletin board on a direct link. By contrast, any sort of broadband seems infinitely better.
That said, it also seems impossible to go backwards. We grow very quickly accustomed to truly fast speeds. I also well remember a project in California, working with a programmer back in Texas. He sent frequent updates to the code, which I was lucky indeed to get at 5 kilobits per second. By contrast, many times I am disappointed these days if a download is "only" at 5 Mb... a thousand times faster than that old project. How times have changed! Today, the speed for many things I download is constrained not so much by the link speed to my ISP (nor, at 60 Mbits would I expect it to), but by the various servers on the Internet itself. If I can get a connection with a source that is only two or three hops, the download flies. That is not so common, though it would be far more so if I were downloading Russian or Ukrainian language materials like my stepson does from relatively close-by servers. (I live in Ukraine). My stepson is accustomed to watching movies stored on one of our ISP's servers as streaming video; the best I can do with television shows or movies is to download them via bit torrent to watch later. Fortunately, a 350 MB television program will often download in fifteen minutes or so, but can at times take many hours. At present, I am experimenting with various DNS alternatives to see if I can improve that part of the equation. David --- In [email protected], "grantrocket2" <mars_ro...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Paul" <pfrederick1@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "grantrocket2" <mars_rover@> wrote: > > > > > > While this is unrelated. I want your internet. > > > I get 200KB/S on a good day. 8MB/S is epickly fast!!! > > > > > > > I only get 13.26 Mb so 8 MB is almost 5 times faster than me! > > > > http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/581/speedtesty.png > > > > But I'm OK with what I have. So it takes me about 7 minutes to download a > > whole CD. I'm patient :) > > > > Wow, seven whole minutes. It takes me HOURS on a good connection to test out > the latest and greatest *nix distros. > For any record being kept here, my internet is a wireless brodband modem, and > i'm on the fringe of the network. The lazy arses over at verision/at&t/bright > house, don't beleive there is any money to be had if they lay a cable down a > dirt road in the middle of nowhere. > > [/rant] > > Ok i'm good now. > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
