An amusing irony
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It's the long run that counts in the end, not the peaks. Sorry, Nish+. :rose:
You don't need to sleep to see a nightmare Anne Clark [sighist]
peterchen wrote: It's the long run that counts in the end, not the peaks I know peter :-) I was just mentioning this as a sort of trivia :-) Nish
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
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You guys must all have heard me ranting about my poor bandwidth often here on CP and elsewhere. But today when I posted that thread on what was the fastest speed anyone has ever browsed at, it tickled me no end to find that no one has come anywhere near the speeds I had enjoyed for a few heavenly minutes. I had experienced 1 MB/s [MegaByte] -> approx 8 Mbps [bits] Only Colin came anywhere near with 5 Mbps [600 KB/sec] :jig: :jig: :jig: :jig: Nish :-D
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
Funny! Anyway, I heard stories that happen on the ebay, the famous bidding web site. There it often happens that someone with a slower connection bids and someone with a fast connection bids later even a smaller amount, but the latter bid gets first just in time before the bidding is over. So it ends up that who offers less money later than who offers more gets the product. Best regards, Alexandru Savescu
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You guys must all have heard me ranting about my poor bandwidth often here on CP and elsewhere. But today when I posted that thread on what was the fastest speed anyone has ever browsed at, it tickled me no end to find that no one has come anywhere near the speeds I had enjoyed for a few heavenly minutes. I had experienced 1 MB/s [MegaByte] -> approx 8 Mbps [bits] Only Colin came anywhere near with 5 Mbps [600 KB/sec] :jig: :jig: :jig: :jig: Nish :-D
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
About 3 months back, I was getting 1 Meg a second from my own ISP's servers. I've never seen a hard disk fill so fast in my life. :laugh: if(E_NOINTERFACE == pThat->QueryInterface(IID_IUnknown,(void**)&pUnk)) { // I aint no pUnk bitch! }
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peterchen wrote: It's the long run that counts in the end, not the peaks I know peter :-) I was just mentioning this as a sort of trivia :-) Nish
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
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About 3 months back, I was getting 1 Meg a second from my own ISP's servers. I've never seen a hard disk fill so fast in my life. :laugh: if(E_NOINTERFACE == pThat->QueryInterface(IID_IUnknown,(void**)&pUnk)) { // I aint no pUnk bitch! }
Steve Hopkins wrote: About 3 months back, I was getting 1 Meg a second 1 MegaByte? or 1 Mbps [MegaBits] ? Nish
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
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It's the long run that counts in the end, not the peaks. Sorry, Nish+. :rose:
You don't need to sleep to see a nightmare Anne Clark [sighist]
Thats why its irony Peter :confused: Elaine :rose: Would you like to meet my teddybear ?
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Steve Hopkins wrote: About 3 months back, I was getting 1 Meg a second 1 MegaByte? or 1 Mbps [MegaBits] ? Nish
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
1 MegaByte, 17 Meg came down in 17 Seconds! So I grabbed whatever else I could while I was there. if(E_NOINTERFACE == pThat->QueryInterface(IID_IUnknown,(void**)&pUnk)) { // I aint no pUnk bitch! }
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Yes, and I enjoy the trivia from Trivia-randum ;) Btw. how did you do that? Did you visit the CP Server room? :cool:
You don't need to sleep to see a nightmare Anne Clark [sighist]
peterchen wrote: Btw. how did you do that? Did you visit the CP Server room? Didn't you read the earlier thread? I had SSH'd to our US server the day we got connection and before they enforced the restrictions :-) I got the full 10 Mbps leased line :-) for myself. Imagine that!! Of course since it was a remote shell I couldn't downlaod anything to my hard disk. But on Linux terminal it didn't make much visual difference. I give a wget and a 20 Mb file comes in about 20 secs. Imagine that. I could download the .NET SDK in 2 minutes if I wanted to. All 130 Mb of it :-) Nish
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
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You guys must all have heard me ranting about my poor bandwidth often here on CP and elsewhere. But today when I posted that thread on what was the fastest speed anyone has ever browsed at, it tickled me no end to find that no one has come anywhere near the speeds I had enjoyed for a few heavenly minutes. I had experienced 1 MB/s [MegaByte] -> approx 8 Mbps [bits] Only Colin came anywhere near with 5 Mbps [600 KB/sec] :jig: :jig: :jig: :jig: Nish :-D
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
I managed about 10mb/s (yes, 10 megabytes) once when downloading from a sunsite server early in the morning at university. Back then, we'd download quake shareware in the morning, install it into our userspaces, and delete it before we logged off (since it wouldn't let us logout if we were over quota) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Thats why its irony Peter :confused: Elaine :rose: Would you like to meet my teddybear ?
I have a long history taunting Nish for his technical environment, so I couldn't let this one pass ;) Trollslayer (at work) wrote: Would you like to meet my teddybear ? You have a fast teddy bear burn rate, do you?
You don't need to sleep to see a nightmare Anne Clark [sighist]
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I managed about 10mb/s (yes, 10 megabytes) once when downloading from a sunsite server early in the morning at university. Back then, we'd download quake shareware in the morning, install it into our userspaces, and delete it before we logged off (since it wouldn't let us logout if we were over quota) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
Ah, I remember sunsite! I used to download loads of doom maps from there. And I remember getting 100KB/sec on my 56k modem too. :) Simon "This is an equal opportunities airline. The pilot is blind." Sonork ID 100.10024
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You guys must all have heard me ranting about my poor bandwidth often here on CP and elsewhere. But today when I posted that thread on what was the fastest speed anyone has ever browsed at, it tickled me no end to find that no one has come anywhere near the speeds I had enjoyed for a few heavenly minutes. I had experienced 1 MB/s [MegaByte] -> approx 8 Mbps [bits] Only Colin came anywhere near with 5 Mbps [600 KB/sec] :jig: :jig: :jig: :jig: Nish :-D
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
I was on a network, a few weeks ago, which have a 45Mbit connection to the internet. I only used it to check my mail, though ;-) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Ah, I remember sunsite! I used to download loads of doom maps from there. And I remember getting 100KB/sec on my 56k modem too. :) Simon "This is an equal opportunities airline. The pilot is blind." Sonork ID 100.10024
I've always liked the imperial college site as it's url sounds like you're choking when you read it out http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk[^] -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!