Tuesday 3 July 2018
3Gb download in under 2 minutes
3Gb download in under 2 minutes
Back in the 1990s I connected to the internet with a 28.8k dial up modem. I remember one one occasion trying to download 20Mbytes of data over this ever so narrow pipeline and it proved such a long and tortuous experience that eventually I had to leave the computer running overnight in order to complete the download. Yesterday I downloaded a 3Gb file in just under 2 minutes at an average rate 25 M bytes per second. I just had time to browse a couple of web pages before the download was finished.
We take it for granted that everything to do with computers has gotten orders of magnitude faster over time but this still strucke me. Three billion bytes is an enormous amount of data. Back in 2000 I bought a computer with a "massive" 10Gb hard drive that managed to serve all of my IT and gaming needs for several years.
EDIT: Make that 25 Mbyte per second. Seems I got the math wrong the first time.
EDIT: Make that 25 Mbyte per second. Seems I got the math wrong the first time.
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