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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 08/09/07 10:22
Scripsit Neredbojias:
> I, too, remember when 1200 baud was "fast" -compared to the
> prevailing 300 baud rate then prevalent.
Oh, what a luxury. My first experience about using a network connection at
home was with terminal that that had a manual switch for selecting between
110 and 300 bit/s.
For comparison, people are _still_ using the Internet over 9600 bit/s GSM
connections. Faster wireless connections are becoming affordable, but 9600
bit/s is really sufficient for purposes like normal (no attachments, please)
e-mail and much of surfing on no-nonsense web pages.
> But today's cable speeds
> are typically like 1+, 2, 4 and even 7 mbps, and some connections are
> even higher.
That's nominal maximum speed. The real speed is something different and
varies. And a connection between a client and a server is usually not faster
than the slowest part of the data path, and a fast connection does not make
an overloaded server any faster.
Well, this was just to put all these speed things into perspecive. Whatever
the technical status of connection speed is, it'll always be better to spend
less bytes in data transfer. I'm pretty sure that when they finally find out
a way to connect my brain directly to the Internet, the speed will first
(for the pioneering phase that might last years) be something lousy, by
today's standards.
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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