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Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com> writes: |
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> Am Sun, 14 May 2017 01:28:55 +0100 |
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> schrieb lee <lee@××××××××.de>: |
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>> Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com> writes: |
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>> > Am Sat, 29 Apr 2017 22:02:51 -0400 |
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>> > schrieb "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org>: |
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>> >> Then there's always "sneakernet". To quote Andrew Tanenbaum from |
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>> >> 1981 |
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>> > Hehe, with the improvements in internet connections nowadays, we |
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>> > almost stopped transferring backups via sneakernet. Calculating the |
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>> > transfer speed of the internet connection vs. the speed calculating |
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>> > miles per hour, internet almost always won lately. :-) |
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>> > Most internet connections are faster than even USB sticks these |
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>> > days. |
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>> Wow, you must be living in some sort of paradise. Here, internet is |
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>> more like being cut off from the rest of the world. |
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>> But then, there's a manufacturer that makes incredibly slow USB sticks |
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>> which I won't buy anymore ... |
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> Okay, it really depends. I shouldn't say "most"... ;-) |
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Intenso --- pretty cheap, but awfully slow; however, it does |
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work. Better don't buy anything they make unless your time is entirely |
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worthless to you. |
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> I compared my really crappy (but most reliable yet) old USB stick to my |
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> internet connection. My USB stick doesn't do 48 MByte/s, more like 5-10. |
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> And don't even ask when writing data. |
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5--10MB/s? How do you get that much? |
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> Even my rusty hard disk (read: not SSD) has a hard time writing away a |
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> big download with constantly high download rate. |
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It must be really old then, about 20 years. |
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> But I guess that a good internet connection should be at least 50 MBit |
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> these days. |
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I'd say 100, but see above. The advantage is that you have sufficient |
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bandwidth to do several things at the same time. I've never seen fast |
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internet. |
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> And most USB sticks are really crappy at writing. That also counts when |
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> you do not transfer the file via network. Of course, most DSL |
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> connections have crappy upload speed, too. Only lately, Telekom offers |
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> 40 MBit upload connections in Germany. |
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They offer 384kbit/s downstream and deliver 365. It's almost |
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symmetrical, yet almost unusable. |
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They also offer 50Mbit and deliver between 2 and 12, and upstream is |
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awfully low. Tell them you could pay for 16 instead of 50 because you |
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don't get even that much, and they will tell you that you would get even |
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less than you do now. That is unacceptable. |
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And try to get a static IP so you could really use your connection ... |
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> I'm currently on a 400/25 MBit link and can saturate the link only with |
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> proper servers like the Steam network which can deliver 48 MByte/s. |
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You must be sitting in a data center and be very lucky to have that. |
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"Didn't work" is an error. |
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