Download Speeds
Wow, I know we are still only looking at the tip of the iceberg here and that we still have miles to go before we genuinely have an internet that we can call fast in the UK (let alone in world.)
But isn’t it great that you can download a CD’s worth of data in 10 minutes flat.
Shame it had to be from Virgin though!!
I remember when it took the same amount of time to download a pathetic little .wav file from an AOL server via a 56k modem. I used to dread it when they updated the Counter Strike Beta versions because it would take the best part of the night eliminating whatever fragging that would have taken place. Now I could download an entire game and still have an entire night to play it too.
Well this is of course would be at work using the 10-meg line because at home I live in a black spot of internet unworthiness. I get about 30kbs – this I can’t even comprehend as being called broadband but rather more like the analogue method of a bygone era of data transmissions that I thought were long behind me. The problem with my broadband is that I only live within walking distance of the centre of one of the top ten cities in England! Fair enough if I had shite internet connection because I was living in the remotest parts of Bulgaria using a satellite to download through – it would be fully reasonable – but I live in a well populated suburb very close to a major city. Ok, you say, stfu and use another medium, you say. So I say; I wish – Virgin/NTL/Cable and wireless, whatever the name that would have been used at whatever time, have never bothered to roll-out through my area – so here I am stuck with my shitty ADSL and not alot to do about it except do my downloading at work and then bang it onto my external drive. Speaking of which I have a terabyte external drive, wow, I know we’re only looking at the tip of the iceber…………..
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He works full time in IT and spends his evenings feeding the farm that is his home has become. Mark loves playing Ultimate every now and again, toying with his camera and has just started scuba diving.
Ubuntu, eh?
Thought I’d give it a whirl in the name of science – it’d be a cheap way of updating the systems here at work if I went down the route of using free shit instead of MS exchange, licencing and office.
I have 24meg at home \o/
Yeah, but you have to live in Londong for such pleasure. I live in possibly the worst geographical position in the whole of Leicester for bt’s exchange access.
Thanks for rubbing it in anyway Pinto.