A thought regarding download speeds.

[Stan_Lite]

I was downloading some RARs from Newsgroups this morning - the size of the RAR set was 8.4GB. The download took exactly 100 minutes, giving an average download speed of 1486KB/s

My first internet connection at home (about 6 years ago) gave me an average download speed of around 9KB/s. The same set I downloaded in 100 minutes this morning would have taken 16,311 minutes = 272 hours = 11 days and 8 hours on my first connection.

Also, my first connection was pay as you go dial-up which cost 1p per minute. It would have cost me £163.11 to download the RAR set.

Six years isn't all that long ago really but that's a hell of a jump - 163 times faster

[Daz]

It's the same all round consumer computing really. Storage and memory are the things that get me - I mean, you can get a terrabyte of data for £99. A guy I work with often reminds me he once needed two hands to pickup 256 kilobytes of memory.

RAM is crazy too. I was once called mental for having 768MB of memory, and the other day, someone I know was upgrading the RAM in his laptop from 2GB to 4GB for no reason, just because it's cheap. Windows was less than 4GB install not too long ago - you could have loaded the whole OS into memory and still have room to spare.

Crazy.

[Dr. Z]

Originally Posted by Daz

It's the same all round consumer computing really. Storage and memory are the things that get me - I mean, you can get a terrabyte of data for £99. A guy I work with often reminds me he once needed two hands to pickup 256 kilobytes of memory.

RAM is crazy too. I was once called mental for having 768MB of memory, and the other day, someone I know was upgrading the RAM in his laptop from 2GB to 4GB for no reason, just because it's cheap. Windows was less than 4GB install not too long ago - you could have loaded the whole OS into memory and still have room to spare.

Crazy.

Windows could be made to be less than 100Mb not too long ago! Windows 3.1 was less than 15Mb!

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Daz

It's the same all round consumer computing really. Storage and memory are the things that get me - I mean, you can get a terrabyte of data for £99. A guy I work with often reminds me he once needed two hands to pickup 256 kilobytes of memory.

RAM is crazy too. I was once called mental for having 768MB of memory, and the other day, someone I know was upgrading the RAM in his laptop from 2GB to 4GB for no reason, just because it's cheap. Windows was less than 4GB install not too long ago - you could have loaded the whole OS into memory and still have room to spare.

Crazy.

I know what you mean. My gaming rig has 8GB of RAM. I'll never use anywhere near that and it's complete overkill but the whole 8GB cost less than £100 - so, why not I can also remember being considered to be at the cutting edge because I had 768MB RAM.