Jesus Christ on a Stick

[andrewducker]

After despairing of getting a reasonable download speed for the Quake 4 demo from anywhere, I remembered that Telewest have an FTP site they run themselves - and because it's on their own internal network the speeds tend to be good.

I'm currently getting 1073 kilobytes per second off of it.

That's an 8MB download speed.

See - there is a reason to have 10MB broadband - I can download huge files in almost no time.

Funny, I remember when 10MB was the speed of the office LAN.  Now it's the speed of my internet connection...

Comments

[andrewducker]

I think my first PC had a 40MB hard drive - and we were all super impressed.

Of course, my first computer had 32k of RAM and loaded programs from tape...

[moniqueleigh]

Your first computer sounds like mine. I remember how excited we were on getting our first 2MB hard drive. Thought we'd never fill that thing.....

[momlady.livejournal.com]

The VERY first "computer" I had was a Timex-Sinclair, which also tape-driven, but if you wanted to do anything on it, you had to write the program (copy it manually)...all it took was once mistake to screw the whole thing up and have to start over...I was so glad when I got a Commodore 64....Those were the good ole days, for sure.

:-)