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 NoelCD S L R BlissPremium,MVM
join:2003-09-03
Florida
kudos:1 | Anecdote Just yesterday I was called in to solve a problem...
Two of three required CDs (of data) had been overnighted to a testing lab. Someone from our company was onsite, but waiting another day for another overnight shipment of the remaining CD was not an option.
To make a long story short, I uploaded a 500 MB .iso file onto our ftp server, provided the URL to our man onsite, and he downloaded it and burned a CD. A quick CRC check verified the proper data had been recorded. Problem solved.
500 MB is not insignificant, and it took a few minutes to actually transfer the data (which actually went across the country several times given our company communications infrastructure), but that's minutes, not days. Makes me wonder why we're still FedExing CDs around in the general case.
-Noel | |
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join:2001-01-15
Orlando, FL | yea sure its possible... but until a majority of people can upload at that speed without either being capped or having a limitation on their broadband where they can only upload 3 cds worth of content a month then it won't happen.
I'm not sure whats with the lack of investment lately into broadband, or the sudden popularity of capping, limiting bandwidth ect., but it seems like corporations are feeling ever so threatened by the internet and don't have any real incentive to improve the networks.
not to sound like a conspiracy theorist or anything but server-client models seemed to keep control on how content that wasn't to be seen got out, now with p2p there seems to be some real resistance to it. | |
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