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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: JGO on August 10, 2015, 10:31:22 AM

Title: Never grumble about your speed again !
Post by: JGO on August 10, 2015, 10:31:22 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33816655

Title: Re: Never grumble about your speed again !
Post by: kitz on August 10, 2015, 01:11:39 PM

Novel solution.   1TB of data for just a couple of dollars!

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Post by: loonylion on August 10, 2015, 01:18:00 PM

download speed of ~14kbps and crap latency  :P

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Post by: Weaver on August 10, 2015, 03:53:55 PM

An inaccurately remembered quote from Andrew Tanenbaum:

never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway...

Title: Re: Never grumble about your speed again !
Post by: AArdvark on August 10, 2015, 08:40:59 PM

Don't think this is the limit of the ingenuity of people wanting the Internet when it is/was officially available only to the select few.

They have built unofficial wi-fi networks using relatively cheap tech. (I read Original item on BBC website somewhere (I think) but cannot find now .... some months old)

See this http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/26/cuban-youth-build-secret-computer-network-despite-/?page=all (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/26/cuban-youth-build-secret-computer-network-despite-/?page=all)

Title: Re: Never grumble about your speed again !
Post by: CrazyTeeka on August 10, 2015, 08:57:39 PM

I live in the UK I demand maximum speed.  :P

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Post by: WWWombat on August 10, 2015, 09:15:43 PM

LOL - yes, it reminds me of Unix tapes being swapped back and forth at university.

My very first access to the internet was through email only. The way to download things (small things for Minix at first, eventually multi-floppy distributions of Linux) was to email instructions to an email-FTP gateway, which would follow your instructions, then send you your files back segmented into many emails, with a few KB uuencoded in each. And this was before MIME email attachments, so re-construction was by hand. Someone wandering around with a "paquete" like this would have been bliss!