Marta, Might I suggest doing a search on the Internet for some of these questions as there is an awesome amount of good info out there about this and it might be a little less technical (better for you) than what my geek-speak brain may spew out. A basic Google search for your questions turned up:
http://www.e-learningguru.com/articles/art1_6.htm "In 1 megabyte of space you can store about 1 million characters or approximately 500 typed pages." If you do just a little math, then a 700 megabyte CD can hold roughly 500x700 pages. Schoun > From: Marta Edie <mledie at insightbb.com> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:50:49 -0400 > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: speed test > > Before any of you give me a lesson in math of how man kilobytes go > into a megabyte, I meant my question to deal with the amount of > written pages that might be sent , like for instance : how many > megabytes it would take for the last Harry Potter book to be > transmitted. I can't envision in my imagination how many written pages > a file a megabyte large might contain. > Marta > On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 23:54 America/New_York, Schoun Regan > wrote: > Marta >> Two tonight for me! >> >> http://www.cable-modem.net/features/oct99/speed.html >> >> http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ >> >> WhooHOO! >> >> Schoun >> >> >>> From: Harry Jacobson-Beyer <harryjb at bellsouth.net> >>> Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >>> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:32:52 -0400 >>> To: Macusergroup <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>> Subject: Re: MacGroup: speed test >>> >>>> Anyone know of a reliable way to test the download speed of my cable >>>> modem? I'm getting frustrated, because I forked over the Big Money >>>> ($14) >>>> to watch baseball games over the internet from mlb.com, and the >>>> games get >>>> more and more choppy every night as it get later. >>>> >>>> I'm trying to pin down the problem as being the servers from mlb or >>>> the >>>> cable modem. Lee - do you have this same stuttering problem round >>>> about >>>> 9pm? >>>> >>>> Bill >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >> >> > Marta > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
