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Dec. 7th, 2012 07:34 amit's peculiar, and a bit sad, but the way I look at downloading an operating system anything has completely changed.
when I was dialing into AOL with a 33.6 kbps modem I thought nothing of downloading anything at all. Slackware? Red Hat? FreeBSD? lemme at 'em! I think I spent more time downloading
now, having a supposedly high-bandwidth wireless connection, I fret over so much as clicking a link to YouTube due to insanely low (for today) transfer quotas. for a household of three we share a monthly quota of 5GB (after which: yay throttling), plus 200MB to 2GB each for our phones.
we have HSPA+, but it peaks at around 600 kbps. sure, that's fast alright. the worst part is really the latency though. sometimes games exceed 30 seconds of latency without disconnecting.
I tend to offload larger downloads to my phone, since otherwise I only use about 500MB each month. despite that, and doing not much more than basic web surfing and gaming, we average about 15GB each billing period.
when we had a wired connection in town I, alone, generally managed that in a day.
when I was dialing into AOL with a 33.6 kbps modem I thought nothing of downloading anything at all. Slackware? Red Hat? FreeBSD? lemme at 'em! I think I spent more time downloading
freeOSs than anything else back then, including using them. go figure.
now, having a supposedly high-bandwidth wireless connection, I fret over so much as clicking a link to YouTube due to insanely low (for today) transfer quotas. for a household of three we share a monthly quota of 5GB (after which: yay throttling), plus 200MB to 2GB each for our phones.
we have HSPA+, but it peaks at around 600 kbps. sure, that's fast alright. the worst part is really the latency though. sometimes games exceed 30 seconds of latency without disconnecting.
I tend to offload larger downloads to my phone, since otherwise I only use about 500MB each month. despite that, and doing not much more than basic web surfing and gaming, we average about 15GB each billing period.
when we had a wired connection in town I, alone, generally managed that in a day.
