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| Thread ID: 150515 | 2022-03-07 00:01:00 | Speedtests - yet again | R2x1 (4628) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1484750 | 2022-03-07 00:01:00 | If it's true that all speeds are relative, then I believe that Robert is my Mother's brother : 11270 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1484751 | 2022-03-07 00:11:00 | At first look, I thought it was "Days per Megabyte" Ken :banana:banana |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1484752 | 2022-03-07 01:28:00 | Most speeds are relative to where the files coming from. If you were to download a large file from Within NZ it will come through a LOT faster than the same file from the USA ( for Example). Example a Linux ISO, From NZ around 25 -30 Seconds The same ISO from USA - 10+ minutes. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1484753 | 2022-03-08 07:40:00 | First Linux downloads I tried were about 30 hrs, and that was only a few MB. DIAL-UP was never capable of doing the advertised 56KBps, 47K was pretty much tops. Much earlier, for work we were doing set-ups to do data exchange between the MOW head office and their various projects around NZ.. As long as the data sending was restricted to the early AM hours, it was possible to average 28 Baud on a good night, - but that didn't happen very often. The data to be sent was entered onto magnetic tape for sending after midnight (and often re-sent a few times as well). The magnetic tape was in a rather weird format, basically a replica of Punched Card layout. It was usually faster than the telegram system, particularly when the telegraph delivery boys had to tackle blizzards on the Desert Road when they didn't have ice tires on their bicycles. By the time they'd pedalled from Turangi to Wellington, they had earned their 2/-6d. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1484754 | 2022-03-08 19:15:00 | You had it lucky. Back in my day we read those tapes by eye with a scrap of flux viewing film, then sent the binary code cross-country via smoke signals. The guy at the other end wrote his own tape with a magnetised needle and a steady hand. And paid us 3 shillings for the privilege! | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1484755 | 2022-03-08 20:05:00 | Sheer luxury, all of you. We used to tattoo the data on the shell of a snail and send it on its way. The only never fail method we had, slow and foolproof unless the snail was spotted by a Thrush! Ken ;) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1484756 | 2022-03-09 03:51:00 | Absolute dissolute extravagance. We couldn't use smoke or snails because they sold our eyes to the private eye bank before we were 8 weeks old. Our supervisors made us hold onto the bars with our gums so we could pedal the treadmill with our feet and crank the generators with both hands. Weekends were the best time because we were allowed a 3 minute break for our left hands each Saturday. Sundays we could have a 2 minute break for the leg of our choice as long as we had exceeded our KWH quota. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1484757 | 2022-03-09 04:08:00 | That's nothing, we used to live in a cardboard carton in the middle of the road when I was a kid. Mind you it was a 56K modem carton working at 47K Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1484758 | 2022-03-09 19:38:00 | You had a carton AND a road? Damned oligarchs. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1484759 | 2022-03-09 19:49:00 | Aah, but the road was dirt and the carton was very thin, more like a brown paper bag with no top, in the rain, sometimes hail, often snow. And this was Mum and Dad and us 19 kids (no TV in those days) Ken |
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