On 09/01/2011 10:32 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
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 :)
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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
Max speed by "regulation or law" is 54 K[something] Buy a 56.6 modem
and you are not allowed to go beyond 54 [whatever]. Crappy
law/regulation for the Telecom industry.
Thank goodness that I have cable-modem broadband download speeds of up
to 10 to 15 MB/s [advertised], but most sites, and a problem with the
too-cluttered broadband service node [their tech/repair guy tells me]
usually gives me a 1.5 to 2.0 MB/s download speed. They advertise I can
go up-to 50MB/s, but they would have 10 times the number of digital
cable/phone/net users on this service area node than should be [2000
instead of 200] and there is no money to fix that. My building itself
has 200+ apartments, so it/we should be a single service area node by
itself/ourself, but no money to upgrade the service lines, the repair
people keep telling me.
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