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John M. Drescher wrote:
I wonder if they also outfitted her with a computer that can handle 4GBytes / s data rate.
I wondered about that myself. Computer would have to be a pretty recent set of hardware not to bog the connection down.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
it said she had never used a computer before but I bet the guy who designed this whole thing probably didn't set her up with a commodore 64
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
and she just reads web-based newspapers with it!
which is probably why they picked her as a guinea pig. Unlike your average .net user she won't view the opportunity to download a terabyte of pron/warez a day as a challenge. :->
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dan neely wrote:
which is probably why they picked her as a guinea pig
No kidding. You don't need serious uplink speed to read online news. Us developers on the other hand, would be the ones to benefit more from it. There must be some untold gotcha about the connection, me thinks.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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it said she had never used a computer before but I bet the guy who designed this whole thing probably didn't set her up with a commodore 64
public static void DoSomething() { DoSomethingElse(); } public static void DoSomethingElse() { Dosomething(); }
Minosknight wrote:
this whole thing probably didn't set her up with a commodore 64
:laugh: The old C64 would definitely bog everything down. I had a classmate at Cal State Univ. Fullerton who wrote a web browser for the C64, like 16 years ago :)
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Minosknight wrote:
Its nice to see what may be possible in the near future
Only if Verizon would finish the Fios up here. I've seen them set up along the highway but they don't seem to have them going into the actual neighborhood. I only have 1.5mbps and have been told by them that I was very lucky to have it considering the distance to the CO and gauge wiring on the lines.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
I got T3 which can get up to around 45mbps but I had to get all sorts of things done to use it to any sort of its full capacity. Sometimes, its STILL not enough.
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Minosknight wrote:
this whole thing probably didn't set her up with a commodore 64
:laugh: The old C64 would definitely bog everything down. I had a classmate at Cal State Univ. Fullerton who wrote a web browser for the C64, like 16 years ago :)
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
Haha genius, I would love to mess around with some of the old boxes I had.
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John M. Drescher wrote:
I wonder if they also outfitted her with a computer that can handle 4GBytes / s data rate.
I wondered about that myself. Computer would have to be a pretty recent set of hardware not to bog the connection down.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
Paul Conrad wrote:
Computer would have to be a pretty recent sent of hardware not to bog the connection down.
I have a hard time conceptualizing hardware that can handle that data rate with any current pc hardware. I mean would it be practical to have 50 SATA (or 30 15K SCSI) drives in RAID0 so they will be capable of writing data at > 4GB/s. Or will the machine have several TB of memory? Then there is the bus, ok 1 PCI-E 16 slot for the NIC, one for the hard drive array...
John
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Haha genius, I would love to mess around with some of the old boxes I had.
public static void DoSomething() { DoSomethingElse(); } public static void DoSomethingElse() { Dosomething(); }
Minosknight wrote:
I would love to mess around with some of the old boxes I had.
I still have my old C128 in the attic. Along with it's whopping 3160 block ( 790kb ) 3 1/2 floppy drive. I remember when that was pretty cool :laugh:
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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I got T3 which can get up to around 45mbps but I had to get all sorts of things done to use it to any sort of its full capacity. Sometimes, its STILL not enough.
public static void DoSomething() { DoSomethingElse(); } public static void DoSomethingElse() { Dosomething(); }
Minosknight wrote:
I got T3 which can get up to around 45mbps
Lucky you :) I think the problem is that Verzion doesn't see rural areas as being very marketable :sigh:
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Paul Conrad wrote:
Computer would have to be a pretty recent sent of hardware not to bog the connection down.
I have a hard time conceptualizing hardware that can handle that data rate with any current pc hardware. I mean would it be practical to have 50 SATA (or 30 15K SCSI) drives in RAID0 so they will be capable of writing data at > 4GB/s. Or will the machine have several TB of memory? Then there is the bus, ok 1 PCI-E 16 slot for the NIC, one for the hard drive array...
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
I have a hard time conceptualizing hardware that can handle that data rate with any current pc hardware.
I have a hard time seeing something powerful enough, especially for a user like the lady in the article.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Minosknight wrote:
I would love to mess around with some of the old boxes I had.
I still have my old C128 in the attic. Along with it's whopping 3160 block ( 790kb ) 3 1/2 floppy drive. I remember when that was pretty cool :laugh:
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
I don't know what I did with mine. I'm actually kinda sad now. :((
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Minosknight wrote:
I got T3 which can get up to around 45mbps
Lucky you :) I think the problem is that Verzion doesn't see rural areas as being very marketable :sigh:
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
Maybe its time to consider a new isp then! I used to have Earthlink, they aren't bad. They had coverage almost everywhere.
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Maybe its time to consider a new isp then! I used to have Earthlink, they aren't bad. They had coverage almost everywhere.
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Minosknight wrote:
I used to have Earthlink
Same here. But wouldn't it ultimately boil down to Verizon hardware, irregardless of ISP? I looked at Linkline a few years ago.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer The battle between the user's bandwidth capability and the content provider begins.
They should have said theoretically less than 2 seconds. In reality no server on the public internet serves up content at that speed.
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John M. Drescher wrote:
I wonder if they also outfitted her with a computer that can handle 4GBytes / s data rate.
I wondered about that myself. Computer would have to be a pretty recent set of hardware not to bog the connection down.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
I never thought I would see the day when the home computer, not the network, becomes the bottleneck when accessing the Internet. :~
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I never thought I would see the day when the home computer, not the network, becomes the bottleneck when accessing the Internet. :~
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I'm so gangsta I eat cereal without the milkFrom the network's viewpoint it would be bottlenecking, but from the user's viewpoint, they wouldn't see the bottleneck, unless they were downloading so much at once that the bottleneck then becomes apparent.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
2 seconds,
Moving a movie from a folder to another in my machine takes minutes.:sigh:
VuNic wrote:
Moving a movie from a folder to another in my machine takes minutes.
heck, takes longer than 2 seconds to select the file.
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Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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dan neely wrote:
which is probably why they picked her as a guinea pig
No kidding. You don't need serious uplink speed to read online news. Us developers on the other hand, would be the ones to benefit more from it. There must be some untold gotcha about the connection, me thinks.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
Paul Conrad wrote:
There must be some untold gotcha about the connection, me thinks.
Yeah, the very first link outside of her special network. The second that connects to an ISP or server it will drop all the way back down to what we all pretty much have. Even if all the network hardware of the internet was "upgraded" to match her speeds the server hard-drives and memory wouldn't get close.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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Marc Clifton wrote:
In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer The battle between the user's bandwidth capability and the content provider begins.
They should have said theoretically less than 2 seconds. In reality no server on the public internet serves up content at that speed.
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