The Joys of High Technology

[jducoeur]

Despite all the years I've been watching the curves going up, computer and network speed still occasionally surprise me.

I just downloaded Cotgrave's 1611 French/English dictionary. 111 Megabytes. Just a few years ago, downloading something that large would have been inconceivable; now, it took just a few minutes. Somewhere along the line, Comcast must have upgraded our pipe, because I just cracked 200KB/sec, which is faster than was theoretically possible when this cable line was first laid...

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[tpau]

we jsut got mail from RCN telling us thta they made our connection 5 times faster by switchign us to Megaband 5 or soemthign liek that...

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

oh, so that's where all our bandwidth has been going. We're getting a steady...200k*b*ps around here. :-/