Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Speed

I've just been getting outrageously high download speeds on the cable at home.
Averaging 336 kB/s

Hypothetically, if one were to say download the first episode of the second series of *cough* Terminator on something like bittorrent at 350 MB it would take just 17 minutes to download.

12 comments:

Memphis said...

What did you do? I could use some insanely high speeds like that. There is so much porn, er, award winning films out there that I'd like to burn.

unique_stephen said...

Well, Steve, this is all hypothetical of course because nobody would deny a starving media conglomerate of advertising revenue, right?

Anonymous said...

So, fast hyperdrive bytey type thingys are good then?

unique_stephen said...

If your a gheeek like me.

fingers said...

I bet works out to just a tick over 1000 seconds...

unique_stephen said...

ye - cant fool you, but *remember olde man that 1MB = 1024 kB. If you're not careful you'll be 2% out.


*Re member, - do we have to "member" it in the first place to REmember it later?

DeeDee said...

Is the first Terminator ep out already? I always mark these things on my calender and then loose track. Fingers crossed on that they don't make girl terminator someone other than River Tam.

Also, Shame on you, being a geek isn't masculine or feminine, it is a universal honor. (Also I think they think I should be interested in more noble pursuits like my hair and if my butt looks big in this.)

unique_stephen said...

Eostre > Goddess of beginnings, of dawn, fertility and libido I do believe (well, actually I don't believe, as I'm a confirmed and practising atheist).

Welcome to my humble abode, my very own emunctory organ, excreting my bad ideas onto the web. Please, my home is your home.

Memphis said...

I would, but don't tell anyone.



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Fusion said...

You need some upgrades there Steve, just ran a speed test here,
5.886 mB/s down, 472kB/s up.

Best speed I've seen was at a friend's home in Chicago, 13 mb/s down!

I downloaded a 4:30 song in 2 seconds there. Made my jaw drop.

unique_stephen said...

You could use the internet as your high speed cache

Anonymous said...

that is a seriously geeky thing to say. but I am happy for you.