Q: What do you call a blind, deaf-mute, quadraplegic Virginian? A: Trustworthy.
August 12, 2006
Holy internet upgrade, Batman! posted at 10:52 PM
computers

So, when we moved in here, the internet was ok… nothing special, but better than dialup. We were getting around 50-60k/second downloads, just like at the old place (which was about what we expected, since both places went through ICS).

So, I sit down and start downloading XCode 2.4, and then go to other things, thinking, hey, there’s no way this’ll be anywhere near done before I need to go to sleep. Less than 10 minutes later, I go look at it, and it’s 100 megs through the download.

I’m getting download speeds of 300KB (yes, kiloBYTES) a second.

I hope this is permanent.

//edit: in the time it took me to write that post, it downloaded almost another 40 megs. I could get used to this.

//edit2: click. appear. click. appear. That’s it. I really hope this isn’t a fluke, because papa’s got a taste of honey, now he wants the whole hive :D

//edit3: over the course of the night, it worked its way up to 4-500KB. Yuuuummmmmm….

Comments (2)...
  • Comment by Tom:

    Oh, very nice. Mediacom cable has been steady at ~600KBps downstream (with a whopping 32KBps upstream) for a while now; I wonder if they’ll upgrade soon.

  • Comment by Nick:

    I just tried the same download… 700+KBps. Speed according to dslreports was about 5000/5000.

    We’ll see what happens tomorrow night.

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