Hi :) Wow! I thought the dial-up speeds were around 40 kBytes per second i didn't realise it was only bits! Although bytes were smaller back then when dial-up was the main way that people used to connect. There is a great sound-file about halfway down this page btw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-up_Internet_access Fairly reminiscent of the sound of a ZX Spectrum loading something from tape. Regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: Dave Sergeant <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 1 September, 2011 14:57:13 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3.4.3 released. Stable and functionality combined On 1 Sep 2011 at 6:41, Tom wrote: > I keep saying 73Kb but i mean slowness/speed of download rather than > file-size. The file-size is probably around 146Mb. At dial-up speeds, > or even just double that, it's going to take quite a while to download. > > Do you mean 73kbits/sec or 73kBytes/sec? On my 8Mb/s connection I downloaded the windows version (188Mb) in 4 minutes at 800kBytes/sec. On that basis at 73kbits/sec it would take 400 minutes, or at 73kBytes/sec 40 minutes. If you started yesterday you should have finished by now! Dialup speeds are around 36kbits/sec or 3.7kBytes/sec, rather slower. Dave http://www.davesergeant.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
