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 LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "grantrocket2" <mars_rover@...> wrote:
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <pfrederick1@> wrote:
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> > --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "grantrocket2" <mars_rover@> wrote:
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> > > While this is unrelated. I want your internet.
> > > I get 200KB/S on a good day. 8MB/S is epickly fast!!!
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> > I only get 13.26 Mb so 8 MB is almost 5 times faster than me!
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> > http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/581/speedtesty.png
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> > But I'm OK with what I have. So it takes me about 7 minutes to download a whole CD. I'm patient :)
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> 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.
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> Ok i'm good now.
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