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Ah, the old man remembers the good old days. There was that ten meg
hardrive that took up the space of a file cabinet dedicated to CD's that
lived next to the 64K Ram 8088 computer that one wanted to expand to
254K. This ten meg hard drive swallowed all of those programs easily
as they were all on single 360K 5 1/4" floppies. It had acres of room
that would never be filled. Actually, my drive was never filled. It
died first.
Of course, your work will expand to fill whatever you have for it. Jpg
files have steadily increased in grainularity since they were introduced
and have been followed by sound and video.
Just logging on to a website forces your computer to throughput pure
unadulterated junk that lives on your temp files until you clean them.
And the junk has increased in bits over time. If you could fore the
issue and only accept text, you can use a slower device and require less
memoroy.
Oh yes, who here is old enough to remember the great speed increase from
300 Baud to 2400 at the modem?
bs
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, John Fiore wrote:
> Nobody really needs more than 1.5 Mbps any more than we need a hard
> drive bigger than a few gigs, but every time you get a big hard drive,
> you tend to fill it.
>
> He's paying $40 for 1.5 Mbps, and could be paying the same price for
> 10 times the bit rate. For most things that most people do on the
> internet today, you probably wouldn't feel the difference between 1.5
> Mbps and 15 Mbps, but keep in mind, that his upload speed is probably
> currently about 256 kbps. With FIOS, it'd go up to a few Mbps, which
> would make a nice difference if he's at work and wants to get some
> files left at home (or even allow a home MP3 or video jukebox that's
> available wherever he goes).
>
> The question is whether or not the extra capacity is worth the
> aggravation of the switch. Personally, I'd go for it, but because I
> live in Philly, I doubt I'd ever have to make the decision.
>
> On 4/27/06, gyoza@comcast.net <gyoza@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Why do you need more than 1.5 Mbps?
> >
> >
> > Paul L. Snyder wrote:
> > > So, the FIOS guy came a-knockin' today, said I could get 15Mbps downstream for
> > > $40/mo, free setup, and one month free. I'm pretty happy with my DCANet DSL,
> > > but I'm paying roughly the same amount for 1.5 Mbps.
> > >
> > > Anybody have FIOS and an opinion about it? If I convert, the house will be
> > > switched over to fiber; it's a one-way street, with no going back to DSL.
> > >
> > > Plus, I hate dealing with Verizon.
> > >
> > > pls
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