Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Paul Nash writes:

A bit of perspective on bandwidth and feeling old. The first non-academic connection from Africa (Usenet and Email, pre-Internet) ran at about 9600 bps over a Telebit Trailblazer in my living room.

For your amusement, this latest e-bloodbath, erm -sports update, at 48GB ("PC" version), would take about 463 days (~15 months) to complete at 9600 bps (not counting overhead like packet headers etc.) At 64kbps (ISDN/Antarctica) you could do it in 69 days, maybe even finishing before the next - undoubtedly bigger - release comes out. -- Simon. [I conservatively used decimal Gigabytes, not "Gibibytes" - at 48GiB the numbers would be 497 or 74.5 days respectively.]