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andrewducker) wrote2004-06-05 01:58 pm
andrewducker) wrote2004-06-05 01:58 pm
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I first got onto the internet via the university computer system, back in 1991. I have no idea how fast the connection was, but as all I ever did with it was email, news and telnet, it was certainly much faster than anything I was using it for.
When i finally got myself online under my own steam I was using a state-of-the-art 28.8kbit modem. This took about a minute to dial/connect and then about 5 minutes to download a megabyte of data. If someone sent you a 500k email it meant that you were going to have to wait a long while to get your mail.
I then moved up to a 56k modem (when they became available), then to ISDN, then ADSL and now I'm on cable.
I just started a 34MB file downloading. It's coming down at 1200kbit/s or 150kByte/s. Or in other words, it's going to take 4 minutes to download that 34MB file.
The speed is sometimes boggling.
When i finally got myself online under my own steam I was using a state-of-the-art 28.8kbit modem. This took about a minute to dial/connect and then about 5 minutes to download a megabyte of data. If someone sent you a 500k email it meant that you were going to have to wait a long while to get your mail.
I then moved up to a 56k modem (when they became available), then to ISDN, then ADSL and now I'm on cable.
I just started a 34MB file downloading. It's coming down at 1200kbit/s or 150kByte/s. Or in other words, it's going to take 4 minutes to download that 34MB file.
The speed is sometimes boggling.