carrier pigeon faster then pc’s in one area …. high tech stuff here …
on 09/19/2010 at 10:35 AM
An amusing example of the principle: “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes, hurtling down the highway.”
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ATH !30% of 200 meg in 75 minutes ... is 60 meg in 75 minutes ... 800Kb/m, which is 1330 bps.
I call BULLSHIT on this story. 1330bps is well within the capacity of a 2400 baud modem from 1988. This is not “broadband”, it isn’t even “high speed” 56K dial-up. It’s barely above 1200 baud modem speed from 1981. This is low speed analog data transmission, not digital at all.
Internet and hypertext transfer protocol be damned, you can beat this speed with Kermit or Y-modem. Hell, with X-modem.
Probably. And still have time to lunch on BBQ pigeon.
Seriously, I’ve never had my videos I’ve posted on YouTube take more than fifteen minutes; that includes processing/conversion time.
I call BULLSHIT on this story. 1330bps is well within the capacity of a 2400 baud modem from 1988. This is not “broadband”, it isn’t even “high speed” 56K dial-up. It’s barely above 1200 baud modem speed from 1981
You’re really calling BS because the ‘media’ counted on nobody knowing that!
Dont forget upload speed is way, way less than download, depending on how many are uploading on your shared bandwith it can be slower than the old teleprinter in the 1070s! in england the ISPs are less than forthright, the domestic service can be shared by up to 100 users, pay premium (business?) and make that 10 or 20 so whoa on the bullshit call just yet. Here in ontario it took over 30 mins to upload a 90 second video, 4th try the whole thing took over 1 hour. Perhaps the new social (????) networkin fad has taken the internet away from the download heavy use enviaged?
Posted by Chris Edwards
09/19/2010 at 08:09 PM
I can download stuff at 20Mbps. Upload is only 1/5 as fast, but that’s still 4Mbps. I can send that 200Mb file in 50 seconds.
While my ISP is fast, it is not the fastest. It’s just the fastest at the lowest price; most bang for the buck.
A fax machine - that teleprinter from the 70s - runs at 14.4Kbps. They’ve run at that speed since forever. That’s a bit more than 10 times faster than the speed in the story.
Yes, most internet is daisy chained from one user to another, but please. I live in the most densely populated part of the country and I’d bet more than 90% of the homes and businesses here have internet. Even at the worstest times, late afternoon when all the kiddies go online to tweet and surf up SpongeBob, speeds don’t drop to below 15Mbps if I’m surfing within the USA.
So the story may be real, but I’d bet a silver herring that the folks who did the demonstration hunted down the worst point to point connection in England and ran their file during the heaviest usage period.
Speed test sites abound. I found one in England, and even accepting that they have the third crappiest internet on the planet, I still got over 10Mbps logging in from NJ:
Lets not forget that Hull is the place that elected this oaf to parliament..........and now the clown is a Lord! (Lord of the pies by all accounts too)
http://therantingkingpenguin.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-honourable-peers-to-grace.html
Drew458, maybe you are lucky with the wire infrastructure in the US, back in England some of the wiring is pre war (1,2.napolionic??) and while 10 is available near the exchange when you get 5 miles out think 1,5Mps, add that to the user ratio and you get dial up slow, then it drops out and you start again (in Ontario, out in the sticks windows is really bad for this, macs seem more robust) remember England is only as big as one of the great lakes and a population as big as Canada yet there are considerable areas with no internet, and many others with severely limited service, and that is what, perhaps these guys were trying to prove.
Posted by Chris Edwards
09/20/2010 at 10:10 PM
09/19/2010 at 02:34 PM
