Sankes, Burn, drwtsn....We should start a TS1000 survivors club. lol
I downloaded a TS100 emulator a few years ago but never unpacked it. Might be fun.
60 MB Broadband (cable) Internet...do we really need it that fast?
by SnakesInTheTower 55 Replies latest social entertainment
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drwtsn32
Sounds like fun! hehe
My second computer was a VIC-20. Still have it. In fact about a year ago I hooked it up to my 60" HDTV. Was that nerdy of me?
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noni1974
You guy's are nerds.
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kurtbethel
Ah yes, the good old TS1000/ZX81 club.
I graduated to the TS2068 and had a modem, real floppy drives, sent email on the internet with that one.
I wrote a Timex Sinclair booklet and still have copies I sell on eBay sometimes. Someone scanned a copy (and did a crappy job) and it is posted on World of Spectrum.
It can be found here. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000935
I can be talked in to a JWN special and mail a copy postally to JWN Timex survivors.
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Twitch
There are two factors when considering your internet account, bandwidth (speed) and usage (data transferred).
Bandwidth is essentially how fast your connection is and is usually measured in megabits per second, Mbps (1000 Kbps is 1 Mbps). This is your transfer rate and shouldn't be confused with your usage which is measured in gigabytes or megabytes (1GB is 1000 MB). Typical home bandwidth for "high speed" internet averages around 5Mbps download, usually less on the upload. A DSL connection or modem will have the same upload/download speeds ideally; ADSL connections will not (less on the upload side but not imperative for the average surfer).
Your ISP will give you bandwidth and some amount of usage with it, i.e. 50GB for example. If you download more than 50GB, you'll likely be charged a fee per GB over and above. Keep in mind that everything you do on the net requires downloading data so your usage is constantly used however, you'll likely only hit your limit if you dl lots of large files; (movies, music compilations, etc)
Check it: www.speedtest.net
FYI
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stillajwexelder
2573 Kbps download 421 kbps upload
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stillajwexelder
are we all agreed we can not have too much bandwidth?
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stillajwexelder
also we can not have too much speed
nor too much RAM
nor too much hard disk space
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Twitch
60Mbps at home?
Do we need this?
No, not now. But we will. Convergence is well under way, video/web conferencing ala live streaming video will be commonplace and resolutions/frame rates will make HD look like BW ;)
It's technology. It's evolving as we speak, exponentially. You thought the iphone was cool. Just wait,.....;)
You need that bandwidth, the drive to store it and the RAM to run it.
It's never enough,.....
Consume,.....
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truthsetsonefree
Twitch has it absolutely correct. It will be a long time before the computer revolution slows down.
Isaac
