The double net whammy and computer speed episode!
Locations in web form thingys, a huge power outage in Singapore, nostalgia comparing how we thought of computer speeds in the 80s, 90s and noughties, my vintage 200MHz Pentium MMX machine still running, the megahertz myth, building computers from Sim Lim Square, the Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64 and Commodore 1541 disk drive, 6502 chips in everything, TMnet "high speed" monopoly in Malaysia, getting paid to podcast, stalling internet connections driving me crazy!
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yo Ruben its just me Eddie annoying you again, about 23 mins in to this show you mentioned your internet being 300MB localy or 100MB international download speeds, but it seems like a huge ammount. According to speed test.net “http://www.speedtest.net/global.php?continent=4&country=17″ StarHub CableVision comes out on top in singapore at 8687 kb/s which is about 8.5 MB/s but i guess you where talking about Mb/s (megabits instead of megabytes so thats basicly 1024Kilobits in A Kilobyte so i guess that would be about 85 Mb/s although im sure they advertise it at 100 Mb/s to make it look big, this is pretty fast considering here in the Philippines im only on 1 Megabyte (i think u can rent up to 4MB/s here) download or 10 megabits. It gets conusing using the old megabits, in europe theyve now stuck to just using MB Megabytes and i think the UK are offering more bandwidth then anywhere else in the world now yes even more then Japan at 30MB/s but people in Canada or elsewhere shouldnt feel they have inferior bandwidth to Singapore, Seoul, or Japan as they can get 20MB/s connections with the likes of Q9 or Toronto Hydro “http://www.speedtest.net/global.php?continent=1&country=7″ Also when some people are checking there connection they aint lookin in the right place they might be lookin at the speed of their router to there computer, they should always check on some kind of speed test site, precise enough to the nearest server. Im finished annoying you now haha hope this made sense, but i thought you where talking about 300 Megabyte bandwidth and i nearly fell off my chair and had a heart attack, i was wondering what kind of alien technology singapore got while I wasnt looking, although come to think of it those kinds of speeds probably are on the way, and heres the conspiracy bit, those lines will be heavily “controlled” by the MultiCorps booooooooooooo,
cheers for reading have a good coffee day.
ps Im wrong about England being the fastest I think Sweden is doshing out 40MB http://thenextweb.org/2008/07/06/reality-in-sweden-download-a-hd-dvd-in-two-seconds/
wow that said 40GB *wipes eyes in disbelief*